“Transfuguismo,” or the act of changing one’s party affiliation, has become endemic in the Dominican Republic. In a country plagued by corruption and irresponsibility, the phenomenon has become an expression of the times, an alarming symptom of an era in which “consciences are bought and votes are sold.”

A number of vociferous critics are holding the left responsible for all of Colombia’s current ills and evoking the Peñalosa era as a golden age to which the country should return.

“Regarding the massive discontent people feel toward both political parties and the political class in general, it has been said that there is a growing sense of anti-politics among the citizenry, one that might very well erode the viability of democracy and lead to authoritarian experimentation on the one hand or a breakdown in social

An unusually deep-seated apathy toward politics has taken root in Brazil in recent years.

During recent years Venezuela has become the country with the world’s most stagnant economy and poorest rate of development. It heads the list on the Index of International Misery and has among the lowest credit ratings of any nation on earth, according to the Bloomberg Agency.

One of the main reasons for the rise of the Sendero Luminoso (The Shining Path) during the 1980s in Peru was the fact that the peasant uprisings of the previous decades had been crushed under the iron fist of the second Belaunde government, a political reconfiguration in which the rural population definitively lost its voice.

The latest fiscal reform bill in Mexico is raising hackles among several of that nation’s most powerful businessmen, many of whom are complaining that it will affect their companies’ capacity for future investment.

In his recent essay titled “Adiós al chavismo” (Goodbye to Chavism), Roland Denis bore witness to a Chavism that has already entered its decadent phase: a rancid ideology that “was forged as a subversive bet on the future that knew how to gather its strength at the right moment from what was left behind after

From the moment of his last presidential address, Mexican head-of-state Enrique Peña Nieto has gone on an attack campaign against “populism,” identifying it as an enemy, or at the very least, an antagonist.

The balance between exports and imports in Argentina in the period between January and August of this year is barely 1,487 million dollars, a 70% drop from the same period during 2014.