Organized crime’s hold on local governments fuels record election violence; Europe’s cocaine pipeline shifting to the Southern Cone.

His shady associates and wrongheaded policies are making a bad problem worse.

Tensions in the U.S.-South Africa relationship only heighten as both countries head towards national elections. 

Strengthening global ties is the best way to escape a pandemic-induced recession and help the country’s poor.

His “Fourth Transformation” is a victim of his failure to take the pandemic seriously.