Challenges for journalists are less life threatening than in other parts of Latin America and the World, but they are real enough (and some are self-inflicted). 

After 1996, Guatemala moved beyond armed conflict to internal, social conflict.  Over the last decade “increasing indicators” of crime demonstrate that “the situation has become uncontrollable” that it’s “undermining economic growth.” 

The Chavista dilemma in Venezuela today, according to leftist critics, is choosing between “delusions” and “dogmas” or “pragmatism.”  

Economist Jeremy Rifkin spoke with Argentine reporters about the Internet of things, the collaborative commons, the eclipse of capitalism, and Pope Francis. 

Some critics believe that one of the biggest problems for Mexico is that its middle class is complicit in a deeply entrenched inequality. 

The political opponents of the government of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner claim that Argentina is now “a dictatorship because the government can pass any law it likes,” and kind of miss the point about democracy. 

According to a member of its negotiating team, the FARC is and always has been a political organization. 

It has long been said that politics is the concentrated expression of economics, but over time many observers have declared this idea “outdated” or invalid.  Enter Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa.  

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.