Global uprisings against corruption can fuse middle-class concerns over the rule of law to a more radical critique of unequal political systems.
Regions / Brazil
As the Olympic games in Rio draw to a close, another set of games will begin: military exercises between the United States and South Korea to prepare for a possible armed conflict with North Korea.
As refugees take the Olympic stage, the wars that sent them running for their lives continue apace.
Brazil's elites can't win an election, but they can engineer an impeachment.
Several countries afflicted by the Zika virus are asking women to delay getting pregnant. Yet local laws — and U.S. foreign aid rules — make it impossible for many to get a safe abortions.
Brazil's Workers' Party was once the pride of the New Left for an entire hemisphere. Now its 13-year rule hangs by a thread.
Latin America's largest country once looked ascendant. Now it's been laid low by widespread violence, structural racism, endemic corruption, and external economic shocks.
The BRICS were well poised to rival the West's control of the global economy. But while they grapple with economic slowdowns and rising social tensions, other blocs of developing economies are rising to the fore.
The new BRICS bank could rival the IMF or fall flat on its face. Either way, it's a sign of shifting global power and influence.
Latin America's transition out of dictatorship hinged on two words the U.S. would be wise to heed: "Never again."