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.

Long touted as the most successful case of democratic vigor and economic development in Latin America, Chile may be losing its shine as other countries make significant progress with economic reforms and democratic consolidation. 

The fatal attacks perpetrated at the Granja Penal Pavón Prison, in which former captain Byron Lima, along with twelve other prisoners who were serving their sentences were killed, certainly drew attention to the deficiencies that exist in the prison system.

The intervention of President Enrique Peña Nieto in the act of promulgating secondary laws of the National Anti-Corruption System, during which he apologized to citizens for the purchase of the so-called White House, constitutes a positive, though unusual, gesture for our government.