Leftist leaders have diagnosed the core problem as being neoliberal capitalism, and so they believe that all that is needed is to remove it and replace it with something else.  In this case… socialism. But neoliberal capitalism isn’t the core problem so much as it is an environment that makes everything worse for most Hondurans. 

The long term impact of President Peña Nieto’s reforms will depend on their implementation. 

The country is going through a bad patch, and it isn’t doing anybody much good. 

As several Latin American countries vote in various elections in the month of October, many observers will be watching and trying to predict whether the “Pink Tide” is about to contract. 

In the exchange of barbs between Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and her main rival Marina Silva, who is right?  Reinaldo Azevedo says “both and neither.”  Patricio Navia thinks that Silva could be “the alternative for a new Latin American left.” 

What is missing is a force able to summon citizens to the polls to punish corrupt politicians, allies of the mafia, and the beneficiaries of clientelism.

The Chilean press has pretty much overlooked one key fact regarding the homemade bomb that exploded in Santiago’s Escuela Militar metro station. 

Many of the arguments against raising the minimum wage are a clear example of how the ideology of the “free market” works to dismiss the misery suffered by millions of people for the sake of fidelity to an intellectual orthodoxy that mainly exists to aid the class interests of the rich. 

The Miraflores district of Lima has proposed a system to preserve the nation’s cultural heritage that could be revolutionary. 

The first “to cry, scream, kick, insult, and become hysterical are the libertarian, neo-liberal, right-wing columnists who will go to extremes of frenzied upheaval” if anything happens to their “admired and protected” classes and institutions.