The Bolivarian socialist political ideology contributed to the downfall of Venezuela and has pushed thousands of Venezuelans to leave their country to escape the current political and social climate, in a way Latin America has never seen before.

When individuals gather together in the streets to protest a common culprit of dissatisfaction, there is great power in their numbers, and more, in their freedom of expression.

Argentina’s economic woes from 2001 are echoed in its recent monetary crisis.

President Mauricio Macri, a personality so theatrical that his breathing is overly dramatic, and his Minister of the Treasury Nicolás Dujovne, who frowns even when greeting friends, announced the central components of their plain to fix the Argentine economy in a speech.

Daniel Ortega claims that if Nicaragua complies with an Organization of American States (OAS) task force to find a “peaceful and sustainable solution” to the crisis in his country, he risks forfeiting national sovereignty.

With a divided party and growing opposition, Colombia’s Centro Democrático party is struggling to make progress for the country.

Writing them off as transgressions of national sovereignty by the United States, Daniel Ortega has rejected the creation of an international task force to elaborate “peaceful and sustainable” solutions to the Nicaraguan political crisis.

Who controls the political agenda in Paraguay?

The historic election this July of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) as Mexico’s president has shaken politics up and challenged the established authoritarian strongholds.

Recently enacted fiscal policies in Argentina point to further privatizations in a return to economic practices that harken back to the 1990s.