From Colombia and Venezuela down to Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina, this tag covers the continent of South America as it turns. The articles follow the elections that are moving the region to the right, the leftist governments that resist, the cartels and guerrillas, and the Chinese ports, railways and mining deals that reshape the geopolitics of the southern hemisphere. Readers will find analysis of American foreign policy toward each country: the naval and trade partnerships, the pressure on Venezuela, the diplomatic clashes with Brazil and the quiet cooperation with Argentina and Peru. South America is treated here as a neighbor whose fate is bound to ours.
80-110 soldiers feared dead in a C-130 crash on takeoff in Puerto Leguízamo, deep in the Colombian Amazon. These men boarded a military transport trusting their nation with their lives. They never made it to the mission. Military transport readiness…
After a decade of work and thousands of millions in investment, Brazil just joined the tiny club that can build a modern supersonic fighter at home. The first locally manufactured F‑39E Gripen rolling out of Embraer’s line is more than…
