Semipalatinsk
The legacy of nuclear testing
Editorials about: crime
The Rock
End of an isolation
Caracas. The Q Crisis
When a life in a queue is a nightmare come true
Caracas’ High Life
Is the country’s capital really the tough place you were told about?
Kung-fu Grandma
Learning self-defence at 80 to prevent rape
The Forgotten Sertão
It’s the other Brazil, the anti-Amazon, the poorest and most arid region in Latin America. The Sertão, the Brazilian outback, is twice the size of England: part sea, part desert and part steppe, where life is hard and poverty is rife in the streets. Half of South America’s poorest inhabitants live here, in the Sertão, […]