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.

It may be the year 2017, but a view of Donald Trump’s White House sees a world more similar to George Orwell’s 1984.

As the ramifications of the Brazilian Lava Jato investigations spread into Peru, they might cause a political earthquake in that country when new evidence concerning the connection between corrupt politicians and private corporations is finally brought to light.

It seems that the role of the hegemonic media in Argentina today is that of legitimizing economic power, and often it becomes a political actor in itself. The media has created the idea of a societal split, and the discourse of President Mauricio Macri has called for togetherness and unity among Argentinians.