The dirty money scandal plagues the Chilean Right a year after it suffered a crushing defeat, while the Chilean Senate votes to end the Pinochet-era electoral system. 

President Dilma Rousseff begins her second term with a divided country, an economy in crisis, and a massive corruption scandal at Petrobras. 

Most of the candidates who would be president have made it to the Atlantic coast for vacation and political exposure. 

President Juan Manuel Santos faces many challenges in the year ahead, including completing the peace process, navigating between opposition on the right and left, and maintaining national unity before regional elections.  For Mayor Petro, the most high-profile politician on the Colombian Left who was temporarily pushed from his office last year, time is running out