Contributions from Meg Healy
    
            
      
    Explainer: Brazil's Political Parties to Watch in 2018
    
    
            
      
    
  
  Given voter disillusionment with traditional politics, the country’s parties are rebranding to rebuild their influence. A year before general elections, we profile the parties.
    
            
      
    Update: Brazil's Congress Eyes Reforms ahead of the 2018 Elections 
    
    
            
      
    
  
  The country's lower house is in a race against time to increase campaign funds and change how legislators get elected.
    
            
      
    Weekly Chart: Human Trafficking in the Americas
    
    
            
      
    
  
  The majority of persons trafficked in Central America are underage girls.
 
 
