Jonathan Watts
Jonathan Watts is the Guardian's Latin America correspondent
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Julian Assange waits for Ecuador's election to decide his futureVictory for opposition candidate Guillermo Lasso could mean the end of WikiLeaks founder’s asylum in London embassy
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Venezuela opposition allege coup as supreme court seizes powerPresident Nicolás Maduro ‘is now the national assembly’, says assembly’s leader after court rules it can assume congressional duties
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Amazon land battle pits indigenous villagers against might of Ecuador stateOnly a bridge separates the Shuar village of El Tink from threat of military and mining interests in high-profile dispute resulting in death and displacement
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Chilean TV star wants to shake up politics, but don't call him Chile's TrumpFirst-term senator Alejandro Guillier seems to be enjoying a Trump-like political ascent, but his policies have more in common with the center-left
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Carnival gets political as Brazilians use street parties to decry injusticeAs carnival begins, organisers and revellers are tackling everything from sexism and homophobia to Trump and Temer
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Ecuador election: Moreno facing runoff as 40% vote looks out of reachWith almost 90% of votes counted, candidate for incumbent party just short of 40% required for outright victory
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Samba troupe's political plan for Rio carnival ignites firestorm with farm lobbyA samba school’s decision to focus on indigenous people and deforestation at this year’s carnival has caused anger among agribusinesses in Brazil
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Ecuador presidential election will show if continent's pink tide has truly turnedThe country faces its first election in a decade without Rafael Correa but although the favourite, Lenín Moreno, is from the same party they are different characters
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Chile's forest fires partly due to poor planning, say fire chiefsMonoculture plantations and too few fire breaks contributed to 11 deaths and devastation of 2,000 sq miles
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Deadly wildfire razes entire town in Chile: 'Literally like Dante's Inferno'One body found in smouldering ruins of Santa Olga, the worst-hit of several smaller communities, as hot, dry weather fuels fiercest fires in recent history
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'Global gag rule': stop playing politics with women's lives, MSF tells TrumpAs affected groups worldwide take in news of Donald Trump’s renewal of a policy that has dire implications for family planning, Médecins Sans Frontières has aimed a broadside at the US president’s stance
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'Global gag rule' could have dire impact in Latin America, activists warnReinstatement of policy by Donald Trump could have ‘chilling impact’ in region that already has high rates of teenage pregnancy and maternal mortality
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Can Latin America avoid the global vortex in 2017?After a year of disaster for the left, isolation and weak strategic importance could turn out to be blessings for the region
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Citizen Dilma: Rousseff reflects on life after impeachmentBrazil’s former president, who survived two years of torture in prison in the 1970s, is on a mission to clear her name and tell her side of the story
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Brazil's austerity package decried by UN as attack on poor peopleSenior official says proposed budget cuts, which have been protested in violent street clashes, are ‘lacking in all nuance and compassion’
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Cricket’s Brazilian outpost: how CCC thrive in the ‘corridor of sun certainty’The rural backwater of Itaguaí has become an unlikely hotbed of cricket, kept alive by a combination of expats and eccentricity, and providing a world-class excuse for a party
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Fidel Castro memorial service: crowds gather as dignitaries pay tributePresidents of Mexico, Ecuador, South Africa and Zimbabwe, but not those of America, Canada or Britain, join Cubans to say goodbye to revolutionary
'We have the worst record in the world': the deadly business of Brazil's bush pilots