One hundred years ago, in 1917, the Great War gave way to the Russian Bolshevik revolution. Despite fighting for the people, and generating great hope worldwide, the revolutionaries left a trail of tragedy and pain.

There is no doubt that in Venezuela, the elementary act of voting has been transformed into an odyssey through abuses and outrages against citizens.

All signs indicated that Venezuela’s opposition party, Mesa de Unidad Democrática, was going to win national governor elections by a landslide.

The time for Mexico’s current president, Enrique Peña Nieto, to step down is fast approaching.

Either returning to industrialization or ending the deindustrialization of the shelter of one-sided free trade could put Colombia in a major dilemma.

Something feels off in Argentina as Argentine power players are forgetting their roots and shifts in the nation’s history.

In the last 40 years, Mexico has excelled in the field of science and technology due to its sustained strategy to create and strengthen human capital. Still lacking in the national system, however, are the significant advancements needed to match in terms of infrastructure.

Even though the evaluation of technocracy’s role in the last 26 years has been complex, and it is once again fashionable to throw tomatoes at it, it is realistic to conclude that politics owe more to technocracy than the other way around.

Though soy products were barely used in Uruguay until 2000, the crop now dominates the country’s agricultural production.

Three reprehensible cases in recent days have once again put the issues of violence against women and the outrageous validity of forms of family mistreatment as an extremely permeant and difficult-to-eradicate daily reality.