A trial called AMIA 2 is taking place without any major media covering testimony incriminating some of the most powerful people from the 1990s.

A factor in PPK’s victory has been the vote of Frente Amplio, unlike in 1990, when the vote from the left helped Fujimori. In both cases, a declared right-wing liberal was Fujimori’s opponent.

The world is erroneously interpreting recent changes across Latin America. In particular, three ideas have been popularized which, despite having some basis in reality, fail to appropriately reflect it.

The Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights (IASPHR) is the only institutional mechanism that regionally and permanently promotes, enforces, defends and guarantees human rights.

Leftist leaders cashed in on the commodity boom, but now offer few ideas on how to restore growth.  The Right around the region is happy, but may not have the answers either.

The main problem with Venezuela is that the opposition is more interested in power than in solving the country’s issues. 

The populations of the industrialized world, commonly referred to as “the core” are increasingly being affected by the economic policies that the periphery has endured for so long. 

Last week, politicians from several factions from the opposition called for an observation mission for next year’s presidential elections in Ecuador.

Much has changed since 1789, when the seating arrangements in the French National Assembly (royalists on the right side of the president, and the more radical revolutionaries on the left) provided politics with a handy way of telling where people stand. The “cut-and-dried categories” that the French invented have kept their appeal, but problematically so. 

Neoliberal economist Javier González Fraga attempts to clarify the perceptions of class conflict in Argentina, but inadvertently eulogizes the past administration’s efforts to correct the top-down approach.