The recent decision by Standard and Poor to downgrade Mexico’s credit rating calls into question the long term viability of neoliberal economic policies in the country.

For its indigenous citizens, loving Guatemala means loving your country in spite of the way it treats you.

Though the country is doing better than many of its neighbors in the current downward thrust of the regional economy, “Chileans seem especially pessimistic about their country’s future outlook.” 

While the Olympics was still stealing the spotlight, Brazilian politics went back to normal with the end of recess in Congress and the election of a new president for the Chamber of Deputies. However, ‘normality’ encompasses a government plagued by disunity within political parties and an uncertain future.

As the lines are blurred between political organizers and religious figures in Argentina, religion has become a space of resistance.

Various left-wing governments in Latin America, purportedly agents of change, have recently been acting defensively.

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.