Guy Tymorek investigates the polarisation and problems that still exist in Honduras one year after the coup d’état that removed democratically-elected president Manuel Zelaya from office.

Argentine politics can be sometimes hard to understand, and reading the news is often confusing if you don’t know how the system works. The following should make things clearer and help you to better understand Argentine politics. How does democracy work in Argentina? In Argentina, the president is both head of the state and head [...]

On 30th May Colombians go to the polls to choose their first new president for eight years as incumbent, Álvaro Uribe, steps down after serving his maximum two terms in office. Just six months ago it had appeared that Uribe might stand again after he sought a constitutional amendment to allow him an unprecedented third term in order to protect his legacy of ‘democratic security’ in which the Colombian government has curbed the violence and weakened the FARC insurgency that had bedevilled the country.

It’s been a long wait. After nearly four years of eerie silence, music will tonight ring through the great hall of the Teatro Colón, Argentina’s most emblematic cultural monument. And, after nearly four years of painstaking repairs, we are assured that the great theatre will sparkle as it did when inaugurated on 25th May, 1908.