Indications are that what is coming next for Venezuela will be worse than what we’ve seen already. 

Poverty “is suddenly the main concern” for politicians and journalists who never noticed it before. 

Everyone would agree that when elected officials become prisoners of special interests, or are provided with corrupting perks, “democracy becomes more oligarchic,” which helps “destroy the citizen’s trust” in the system. 

January 2014 marked the 20th anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a treaty that created a single market covering Mexico, the United States, and Canada.  It remains a point of contention.

The key to creating a living democracy goes beyond words.  It entails more than a commitment to rhetoric and calls for efforts to improve its implementation.  You can’t just declare it.  You must live it.  

With the birth of the “social market economy” in Germany in the postwar era, a new age dawned in Europe.  That process is now afoot in Latin America. 

The commemoration of the oil expropriation of 1938 revealed deep divides among the country’s political players, even as forces in the oil industry seemed to act as if all is normal. 

The international press is once again constructing a negative image of Argentina. 

So argued Marcelo J. García in the Buenos Aires Herald.  He pointed out that Radio journalist Andy Kustnesoff, “who generally supports the government,” pleaded repeatedly with Economy Minister Axel Kicillof during an interview to “let us avoid the Clarín, anti-Clarín debate.” 

Fernando Camacho Servin wrote in La Jornada of Mexico City that if President Enrique Peña Nieto wants to save the country, he could start with a strong defense of human rights.