On Tuesday, July 10, the Environment and Climate Change Commission invited social organizations like the UCA, UES, the Water Forum, and the National Board Against Metallic Mining to discuss the merits of the problematic water laws with the Legislative assembly.

With a year of monumental elections and more to come in 2019, the status quo of Latin American politics and ideology is evolving.

July 19th marked the 39th anniversary of the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution over the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua.

Recently, President Mauricio Macri negotiated a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in order to help Argentina’s economic crisis.

The Brazilian right wing may have succeeded in kicking the Workers’ Party out of government with their parliamentary coup, but they paid for it in shockingly low popularity rates for their new government and ultimately demonstrated their inability to run the country.

Trump’s immigration policy has drawn criticism internationally, as well as from within his own political party.

On June 17, Iván Duque became the newly elected president of Colombia with over ten million votes.

Across Nicaragua, students and workers continue to protest the rule of president Daniel Ortega and his wife and vice president Rosario Murillo by comparing it to the rule of former dictator Anastasio Somoza.

With an abortion bill passed in the lower house of the Argentine Congress, women’s rights activists and religious figures are participating in the social dialogue.

The government of the Chile Vamos coalition, a mix of center, center-right, and right parties, has generally had success since President Piñera took office in March 2018.