Jair Bolsonaro

In 2021, leftists won presidencies in every Latin American election but one, including Peru and Chile. In 2022, they could take Brazil and Colombia too. Why?

The good news in Latin America and the Caribbean: much of the region turned vaccination tragedy into triumph. The bad news? Just about everything else.

COMMENTARY The idea of charging Jair Bolsonaro with pandemic homicide speaks to all the demagogues who've helped make the Americas COVID's killing field.

So far, the president's trip to New York City for the United Nations General Assembly appears to be anything but a success for Brazil or the country's image after a series of blunders early this week.

COMMENTARY The pandemic has finally given scientists more standing in Latin America. Let's hope that helps give the region's bad politicos less of it.

After trading jabs with Biden about the Amazon, Brazil's leader now wants $1 billion to reduce deforestation. Many Brazilians warn Biden not to trust the deal.

COMMENTARY: The police abuse Americans are suddenly confronting is vastly worse in Latin America and the Caribbean – and certainly affects the U.S.

Bolsonaro has downplayed the threat of the coronavirus while arguing that the economic and emotional impacts of shutdowns would harm more Brazilians than the pandemic.

COVID-19 cases and deaths are spiking anew in Latin America — and its spring break week could create superspreader conditions for a dangerous virus variant.

COMMENTARY Neither present President Bolsonaro nor past President Lula is the leader Brazil's future needs. Brazil's voters look stuck with them anyway.

Brazil's calamitous COVID news gets uglier, politically and medically, with a bottom ranking for pandemic handling and a report that critics are being prosecuted.

COMMENTARY Few regions need an effective COVID vaccine campaign more urgently than Latin America. So far, in Brazil and elsewhere, that's not happening.