This Month
Venezuela jails two ex-Green Berets for failed incursion
The country's chief prosecutor said the two Americans admitted to taking part in an operation in May that aimed to oust President Nicolas Maduro.
Mexico eclipses Britain with third-highest virus death toll
The record places Mexico behind Brazil, Latin America's largest and most populous nation, and the United States.
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- Adriana Barrera
July
Brazil's Vale resumes dividends 18 months after deadly dam disaster
The miner's second-quarter net profit came in at $US995 million, aided by higher iron ore prices and a devaluation of the Brazilian real currency.
- Gram Slattery and Sabrina Valle
Brazil cases reach 2m, doubling in less than a month
A patchwork of state and city responses has held up poorly in Brazil in the absence of a tightly coordinated policy from the federal government.
- Pedro Fonseca
Brazil's Bolsonaro catches coronavirus, shrugs off health risks
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, after months of minimising the severity of the pandemic.
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- Lisandra Paraguassu and Ana Mano
The worst-case scenario is unfolding in Brazil
The South American nation may become a laboratory for what happens when a deadly and little-understood pathogen spreads without much restriction.
- Julia Leite and Simone Preissler Iglesias
June
Funds managers pressure Brazil over Amazon
Institutional investors managing about $5.3 trillion in assets want Brazil to abandon a proposal they say will add to deforestation and violate the rights of indigenous groups in the Amazon.
- Frances Schwartzkopff
Vale reopens Itabira but pandemic threats persist
Analysts will now be looking out for further disruption to Vale's widespread iron ore operations, particularly those in the northern Pará state, a new hotspot for COVID-19 infection rates.
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- Reese Ewing
- Analysis
- Coronavirus pandemic
Hungry neighbours cook together as virus pummels Latin America
Economic shutdowns have forced poor Peruvians, Argentines and tens of millions of others to fall back on community-based efforts unseen in large numbers since the region's crises of decades past.
- Franklin Briceno and Rodrigo Abd
