Last week, politicians from several factions from the opposition called for an observation mission for next year’s presidential elections in Ecuador.

Much has changed since 1789, when the seating arrangements in the French National Assembly (royalists on the right side of the president, and the more radical revolutionaries on the left) provided politics with a handy way of telling where people stand. The “cut-and-dried categories” that the French invented have kept their appeal, but problematically so. 

Neoliberal economist Javier González Fraga attempts to clarify the perceptions of class conflict in Argentina, but inadvertently eulogizes the past administration’s efforts to correct the top-down approach.

In their evolution, capitalist economies have demonstrated that their need to grow is accompanied by periods of crisis and stagnation. 

Last Monday, President Jimmy Morales met with several sectors, in which there was complete openness to raising issues with regard to the electoral reforms approved by Congress and discussion about what the second round of reforms should comprise. 

Experts find that the effects of crime and delinquency represent a significant obstacle to the economic and social development of nations.

The disrepute into which political actors and public institutions have fallen occasions widespread distrust among the population. 

Once again, the newspaper La Nación contrived to associate human rights to the terms of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, with the clear objective of taking advantage of the latest political developments.

Ipsos confirmed that for 61% of respondents the main problem in Peru today is crime.  So reported Mirko Lauer, from La República of Lima.

Is a new anti-corruption pact feasible or even desirable? We don’t need additional laws to combat corruption; only the political will to put into practice the prolific legislation that already exists.