The Americas
The sleepwalker awakes
Quebec separatism brought Canada within inches of break-up in 1995. The issue has not gone away—and it has burst into the current election campaign
From the archive
Murder at Mass
From 1980: Our report on the murder of Archbishop Romero in El Salvador
From the archive
The Panama Canal
1879: The canal intended to pierce the Isthmus of Panama is in many respects a bolder enterprise even than the Suez Canal