As Mexico’s 2018 presidential election approaches, many are looking to join in support of López Obrador, the presidential candidate whose campaign manager seems to be the current president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto.

Morena, also known as the National Regeneration Movement, emerged as a left-wing alternative on the Mexican political scene, seemingly offering a voice to the poor, the oppressed and the exploited.

Those who once looked toward the United States for a model of democratic values might now have to look somewhere else. 

Within the last year, numerous political changes of great significance have played an important role in influencing the current international scene.

As Ecuadorians reflect on the presidential triumph of Alianza PAIS, the country’s most popular political party, questions of ethics and morality arise.

Society needs to react against all those who, blatantly or covertly, work against its collective interests by derailing corruption investigations. 

The perversity and lies found amongst politicians and big business have reached astounding levels.

The first national strike in Argentina, which took place in October 2016, was an unusual one: the participants were not workers or trade unions, as might have been expected, but rather women, motivated by the desire to overturn a patriarchal order that subjugated and undermined them.

Chile’s political party model is being challenged from all sides.

Corruption scandals linked to the Brazilian construction firm, Odebrecht, have wreaked havoc on Latin American politics. Each new revelation has confused rather than clarified the Odebrecht case, but the one actor with the resources to get to the bottom of the scandal—the United States—has neglected to act.