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...Latin America’s “post-neoliberal consensus” has been all but exhausted. Voters are making new demands of their leaders, and in its current form, Kirchnerism has proved unable to address them fully. That much is apparent in Scioli’s inability to close the deal. He has failed to speak to the demands of the urban middle class, indigenous people, and communities...

...Latin American. Ever increasing consumption of sugar in Europe and America fuels an ever increasing demand for slaves to do the gruelling, punishing labour that sugar production requires. The cheapening of sugar is paid with the lives of Africans. Yet, the horror of the transatlantic slave trade and the appalling treatment of slaves on sugar plantations rarely touches the...

...Latin American countries. Legislation giving rights to nature has been recommended by experts in Australia and introduced at a local level in countries such as Canada and the United States. Closer to home, a bylaw that would have given the river Frome in Somerset legal personhood was, after long deliberation, rejected by the government. It would appear that there is a...

...Latin the word meaning 'left' is sinister. There is a useful website which lists 56 'facts' about left-handed people. According to the facts listed there you are more likely to have allergies, migraines, suffer from insomnia, be an alcoholic, stutter, be dyslexic, live nine years less on average than right-handed people. On the positive side, a left-hander has a better...