Guillermo Galdos , Latin America Correspondent

Colombia acted swiftly to lock down early and yet cases there keep on rising.

The danger to indigenous people is not limited to Brazil. Guillermo Galdos has travelled along the Amazon from the Peruvian capital Lima to Shipibo.

We have followed one family who lost their rented flat and livelihoods in the Colombian capital Bogota, and were forced to begin their way home by foot.

In the UK, we are understandably obsessed with quantifying this unfathomable crisis: counting the ventilators, the tests, the infected and of course the dead.

The Foreign Office says it’s “working furiously” to arrange flights.

It was a policy that shocked the world – thousands of children separated from their parents as part of President Trump’s anti immigration crackdown at the US Mexican border.

Once viewed as the success story of Latin American democracy, with a strong economy, in the last few weeks Chile has seen almost daily street protests and a return to police violence unseen since the end of dictatorship three decades ago.

A young indigenous anti-logging activist has been shot dead in the Brazilian Amazon. Paulo Paulino Guajajara’s tribe said he was ambushed by illegal loggers while out hunting. Another tribesman was injured. Both were members of a local group formed to combat the threat of illegal logging gangs pillaging the rainforest. The Brazilian Justice Minister said…

Police in Mexico have been forced to release a man wanted on drugs charges after a huge street battle with cartel gunmen.

While the fires in the Brazilian Amazon have made headlines across the world for the past weeks, in neighbouring Bolivia fires have also been raging.

The Brazilian government has banned most land clearing for 60 days, in an attempt to stop the fires which have devastated parts of the Amazon rainforest.But another drain on natural resources there – and one far less reported – is mining, especially illegal gold mining.

Brazil could potentially accept $22m in aid to fight the Amazon wildfires, but there is a caveat.

Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, said his country was being treated like a colony. 

What’s happened to the families who got caught up in President Trump’s zero tolerance policy at the border? The hundreds of parents who were separated from their children and deported without them? In the second of his special reports, we revisited one Guatemalan mother who was sent home without her family.

There’s a reason why so many thousands of people are so desperate that they’re fleeing everything they know in the hope of a safer life. And it’s the surge in gang violence which has made Latin America the world’s most dangerous region outside a war zone, with 43 of the 50 most violent cities across…