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Issue 161 August 2009

Bring me my bow

Pablo Nogueira

23rd July 2009 - Issue 161

A few hundred Awá-Guajá people are among the last hunter-gatherers of the Amazon rainforest. But for how much longer?

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Issue 160 July 2009

Big Brother-in Law

William Gill

23rd July 2009 - Issue 160 Free entry

A wildly popular reality TV show predicted—and may have influenced—the outcome of Argentina's elections. What now for the country's ruling elite?

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Issue 157 April 2009

Lula's big moment

Anastasia Moloney

23rd July 2009 - Issue 157 Free entry

The summit of the Americas may not attract much attention as the G20. But it's a key opportunity for Obama to push a new direction in US foreign policy, and for Lula to elbow out Chavez

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Issue 145 April 2008

¡Adiós, Hugo!

Michael Reid

23rd July 2009 - Issue 145

Despite superficial signs of strength, Hugo Chávez's regime is in terminal decline

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Cristina Kirchner

William Gill

23rd July 2009 - Issue 145 Free entry

Argentina's president has given no sign that she aimed for office for any reason other than to satisfy her vast ambition

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Issue 137 August 2007

Chile's poet-revolutionary

Philip Oltermann

23rd July 2009 - Issue 137

Since his death in 2003, Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño has undergone a process of sanctification. The Savage Detectives is a novel that teems with poets and literary movements, yet doesn't take literature too seriously

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