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Ecuador is struggling to service Chinese loans: President Lenín Moreno with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing in December 2018.

Aid

Limits of sovereignty

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by Hans Dembowski
Democracy seems unimportant to many supporters of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro.

Brazil

Blank cheque for the president

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by Carlos Albuquerque
From judge to minister: Sérgio Moro.

Bolsonaro cabinet

Controversial appointment

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by Carlos Albuquerque
An indigenous woman rides the aerial tramway that connects the Bolivian capital La Paz with neighbouring city El Alto, 400 metres higher.

Gondola lifts

Up in the air

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by Julia Jaroschewski
The VLT Carioca in Rio de Janeiro.

KfW

18 million fewer car journeys

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by Katja Dombrowski
Marihuana smokers in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Cannabis

Legal distribution

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by Sebastián Artigas
Commemorating victims of Mexico’s war on drugs.

Mexico

Missing people

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by Virginia Mercado
Virginia Mercado
Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán being arrested for the second time in 2014. The head of the Sinaloa cartel managed to escape from prison twice, but was extradited to the USA in 2017.

Change of government

Restart needed

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by Virginia Mercado
Virginia Mercado
Coca harvest in Putumayo.

Narcotics

“Drugs are in our country’s DNA”

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by Julian Quintero
by Julia Jaroschewski
by Sonja Peteranderl
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