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.

Liberalism and the traditional right in Brazil are likely to face their fifth consecutive defeat in the upcoming presidential elections, which is driving them to desperation.

Mario Vargas Llosa offered his take on the Argentine Senate’s decision to reject a bill that would legalize abortion, claiming that abortion is actually the lesser of two evils.

Venezuela, since 2010, has undergone a public debt crisis exacerbated by falling oil prices, growing social spending, and, as President Nicolás Maduro often points out, an international “economic blockade.”

Venezuelan and Nicaraguan migrants, pushed out of their respective countries by defunct social and political conditions, were attacked in Brazil and Costa Rica as the result of growing nationalist and xenophobic sentiment.

Mexico has an indigenous population of around 12 million people who speak 68 different languages with 364 variations.

In a country where 1% of landowners own 81% of the land, Colombia is a country of men without land and land without men.

When one considers how Mexican history is told, the narrative tends to glorify unsuccessful martyrs like Miguel Hidalgo and rebuke the victors, like the oft-vilified Augustín de Iturbide.

The countries of Latin America can be articulated using two extreme models: the one that became “humanist socialist” in rejection of the corruption of traditional Venezuelan politics, and the one of “savage capitalism” that manifested itself in Chile as a result of a cruel dictatorship.