The region is home to the top three cocaine-producing countries worldwide, plus one of the largest heroin producers.

"Marijuana legalization used to be a fringe concern," says El Daily Post’s security editor. "It’s now part of the mainstream conversation."

Brazil’s outspoken Jair Bolsonaro has a widening path to the presidency, posing a growing concern to the LGBT community.

Dilma Rousseff's former spokesman Thomas Traumann talks with AQ's editor-in-chief about Brazil's coming impeachment vote.