While the Olympics was still stealing the spotlight, Brazilian politics went back to normal with the end of recess in Congress and the election of a new president for the Chamber of Deputies. However, ‘normality’ encompasses a government plagued by disunity within political parties and an uncertain future.

As the lines are blurred between political organizers and religious figures in Argentina, religion has become a space of resistance.

Various left-wing governments in Latin America, purportedly agents of change, have recently been acting defensively.

Mercosur needs to apply a provision specified in existing legislation and suspend Venezuela’s membership in its organization, thereby putting an end to a controversy paralyzing an entire region.

Every system of government proclaims that its goal is to improve the lives of the people it presides over, which is why most governments insist that they are democratic. The constitution of Cuba, to cite only one example, entrusts the communist party with governing the nation because it is supposedly the entity best equipped to

Economics is politics and, as such, is something which should be shaped and directed, revised, and even radically modified by organized powers, political parties, and unions.

The slogan “Ni una menos” (Not one less) has become a rallying cry throughout several countries in Latin America, uniting under a single rubric, numerous social movements against gender violence, a blight that shows no signs of being in decline, despite years of concerted campaigns to combat it.

It would seem that the political right is immersed in a bitter leadership dispute, with everyone on his own.

The government cannot find the way to normalize the country’s situation, that is, to restore security to the citizens, the free supply of goods and the provision of essential public services such as electricity and water. 

The obsession to remove Lula from Brazilian political life, by means of a veritable political persecution, confirms that Brazil has abandoned democracy and is dangerously shifting toward a dictatorship.