Film Review: Los Buscadores

Tuesday, January 16, 2018  |  Americas Quarterly

Directors Juan Carlos Maneglia and Tana Schémbori explore one of the country's most baffling obsessions. ... Read More

A New Generation Is Changing Paraguayan Politics

Monday, December 18, 2017  |  AQ Web Exclusive

While less dramatic than in the rest of Latin America, there is a transformation in Paraguay led by those born in the late 1970s and 1980s. ... Read More

How a Competitive Primary Race Could Shape Paraguay's Future

Wednesday, December 13, 2017  |  AQ Web Exclusive

In an election that could decide the next presidency, voters will judge an unpopular president’s legacy. ... Read More

A Timeline of 2017 and 2018 Elections in Latin America

Thursday, November 16, 2017  |  Holly K. Sonneland

Latin Americans will vote for nine new presidents in two years, along with more than 2,900 legislators. ... Read More

Survivors of a Massacre in Paraguay Looking for Justice, Five Years Later

Monday, July 17, 2017  |  AQ Web Exclusive

A 2012 shooting of landless campesinos and police – and its flawed investigation – continues to trouble Paraguay with its political and social repercussions. ... Read More

How Paraguay Is Finally Reckoning With Its Dark Past

Tuesday, October 18, 2016  |  Americas Quarterly

The government has launched a probe of widespread sexual abuse during the last dictatorship. Will it be successful? ... Read More

Speaking Guaraní, Don Quixote Rides into Paraguay

Wednesday, July 27, 2016  |  AQ Web Exclusive

The first-ever Guaraní translation of Don Quixote was recently completed, part of a growing effort by scholars and officials to embrace Paraguay’s indigenous language. ... Read More

This Week in Latin America: Brazil's Environmental Disaster

Monday, February 29, 2016  |  AQ Web Exclusive

Also: Brazil's justice minister to resign; Ayotzinapa revisted; Colombia's 7 GW energy imports; and more. ... Read More

The Surprisingly Deep Centuries-Old Ties Between the Middle East and Latin America

Friday, February 5, 2016  |  Americas Quarterly

Middle Eastern immigration has influenced some of Latin America's most iconic traditions. ... Read More