Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa moved quickly to impose the rule of law immediately after his surprise election victory in 2023. In the short-term, the results of the country’s youngest ever leader were impressive, including a reported 18% decline in murder in 2024. The president’s administration also…

Political violence is hardly new to America. Since the country’s inception, gunmen have shaped its political landscape, from the Civil War to the Ku Klux Klan, to high-profile assassinations and the bombing of federal buildings. Yet the threat of political violence has deepened in recent years and…

Las ciudades son un referente del progreso de las naciones. Cuando ellas prosperan, también lo hacen sus países. Y cuando son frágiles, es más probable que sus naciones sufran una amplia variedad de males, desde el deterioro de la calidad de vida hasta la disminución…

  Extracted from the UNODC’s 2023 World Drug Report, this summary addresses the nexus between drugs and environmental crimes, as well as converging crimes in the Amazon Basin. The extract, for which the head of Innovation at the Igarapé Institute, Robert Muggah, was responsible, indicates…

Brazil’s stewardship of the world’s largest tropical forest has long ignited acrimony

The artificial intelligence race is gathering pace, and the stakes could not be higher.

Even before Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva assumed office on Jan. 1, he was steeling himself for a national emergency

Whether it was gold, diamonds, or iron, the history of Brazil has been shaped for centuries by the hunt for minerals.

Illegal deforestation, wildcat mining, drug trafficking, and lethal violence: Name your scourge and the Amazon Basin seldom disappoints.

Nicaragua’s crackdown on the political opposition, free press, and civil society is intensifying.

Recent months may well be remembered as the moment when predictive artificial intelligence went mainstream.

In late January, harrowing pictures from the Yanomami Indigenous reserve began popping up on Brazilian social media

Even as the armed forces and police broke up the 8 January insurrection in Brasilia, carting more than 1,000 rioters off to prison, the Brazilian rumour mills spun into high gear.

Cybercrime is high on the agenda of nation states, corporations and international organizations everywhere.

In the years leading-up to the outbreak of genocide in Darfur, in 2003, median rainfall plummeted by a third.