Issue Aug 28-Sep 03 2024: After the July 28 presidential elections and the ensuing controversy, Venezuela’s Chavista regime is left waiting for Latin American support that is becoming increasingly reluctant and more demanding due to Maduro’s violation of citizen freedoms and attacks on democracy.

Issue Aug 28-Sep 03 2024: Is Argentina’s President Javier Milei “a democrat?” “Probably not,” since “it is increasingly clear that, by instinct, he is an authoritarian who does not take kindly to even mild criticism.”

Issue Aug 28-Sep 03 2024: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s final Government Report, delivered at the Zócalo in Mexico City, was marked by an unprecedented connection between the president and the public, who attended by open invitation.

Issue Aug 28-Sep 03 2024: Colombia’s National Electoral Council is investigating the use of funds in current President Gustavo Petro’s campaign, but there is disagreement surrounding which government institution should carry out this investigation.

Issue Aug 21-27 2024: Brazil’s new Integrated National Policy for Early Childhood – scheduled to be implemented in less than 100 days – has the potential to massively boost the country’s Human Development Index (HDI).

Issue Aug 21-27 2024: In Argentina, hunger has become part of public policy despite the fact that it should be a pressing and indisputable issue.

Issue Aug 21-27 2024: The Amazon region in Colombia still has a significant percentage of its forest in good condition, located in the central and southeastern territories of the country.

Issue Aug 21-27 2024: Judge Karla María Macías Lovera, head of the ninth district court in Irapuato, Guanajuato, ruled that the Mexican government engaged in state terrorism through its repressive actions against guerrilla groups, especially in Guerrero, during the administrations of Luis Echeverría Álvarez and José López Portillo.

Issue Aug 21-27 2024: The recent actions by the Peruvian Congress, which alter the Criminal Procedure Code to shift investigative authority from the Public Prosecutor’s Office to the National Police, are a direct attack on the Constitution.

Issue Aug 14-20 2024: Authoritarian regimes are characterized by a concentration of power and unchecked control.