Guillermo Galdos , Latin America Correspondent

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Peru has been wracked by violent street protests against the president for almost two months, after her left-wing predecessor was unseated and arrested. 

There have been fierce running battles in Peru between protestors and police overnight as thousands of people gathered for what was billed as the “take over of Lima”.

In Brazil, President Lula has visited the damaged buildings stormed by rioters – and  condemned what he called the ‘terrorist acts’ carried out by supporters of his right-wing predecessor Jair Bolsonaro.

President Lula and authorities in Brazil say the rioters, supporting Jair Bolsonaro, who stormed key government sites last night will “not succeed in destroying Brazilian democracy” – accusing them of ‘terrorist acts’.

Members of the Sinaloa drug cartel and their associates went on a rampage.

Haiti is once again in the grip of a cholera outbreak which has already killed hundreds, most of them children. And it is just the latest tragedy of a never ending series of humanitarian crises. Since the president was assassinated last summer the security situation in the country has deteriorated, with the government there calling…

The leader of a group of indigenous people in Peru has warned that unless the government does more to help them with the aftermath of local oil spills, there will be more disruption of riverboats in the region.

One place on the planet where climate change is being keenly felt is Brazil’s Amazon rainforest.

Search teams are continuing to scour a stretch of a remote Brazilian river, looking for a British journalist and indigenous expert who have been missing for more than a week.

The Brazilian embassy in London says two bodies have been found in the search for missing British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.

On a single Saturday in March 62 people were killed – it was El Salvador’s deadliest day since the  civil war ended three decades years ago. This was despite a steady decline in murder rates for years. The Central American country has long been known as one of the most dangerous places on earth –…

The consequences of drought caused by global warming are only too evident in Peru, where melting glaciers mean the water which used to supply local communities is drying up fast. 

The Brazilian Amazon is being burned and flattened, taking away not only a critical carbon store and pristine habitat, but also the land of the Amazon’s first inhabitants.

Pulling in greenhouse gases from the atmosphere will be crucial in the fight against climate change.