Issue Apr 22-May 05 2026: Some political articles have recently mentioned the possibility of President Javier Milei’s resignation in Argentina.
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Issue Apr 22-May 05 2026: Near the end of April, Mexico’s Sheinbaum administration, as well as its state-owned oil and gas company Pemex, finally admitted what the media and relevant organizations had already known for weeks: the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico which has caused serious environmental damage on the coasts of
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Issue Apr 22-May 05 2026: One week before the 2023 elections, in which Javier Milei was elected President, the front page of Perfil wrote in the newspaper’s traditional endorsement space: “Do not vote for Milei.” Journalists were warned.
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Issue Apr 15-21 2026: Reflecting on the state of democracy in a region as heterogeneous as Latin America is always a difficult task, not least because subjective assessments are unavoidable, but the last two decades have witnessed the development of methodological mechanisms that facilitate more objective analyses.
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Issue Apr 15-21 2026: The problems besetting Chile are well-known and have been analyzed extensively, from the public’s eroded trust in institutions to the abyss separating those in power from average citizens. However, that such issues are evident does not mean that political leadership in the country has risen to the challenge of ameliorating them.
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Issue Apr 15-21 2026: In retrospect, it is clear that the ethno-Marxist debate in Mexico was enriched in its early phase by the discourse in Vietnam following the American defeat there, as well as by the work of Antonio Gramsci, Palmiro Togliatti, and José Carlos Mariátegui.
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Issue Apr 15-21 2026: In academic discourse—or in common parlance—it was “modern architecture,” which supposedly turned inside out everything a city was to be.
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Issue Apr 15-21 2026: Losing control of the digital discourse for President Javier Milei is akin to losing the streets for a traditional Peronist politician of the 21st-century.
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Issue Apr 08-14 2026: Following the election of President José Antonio Kast, concerns have grown about the weakness of Chile’s political opposition and its ability to present a viable alternative.
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Issue Apr 08-14 2026: A new book by Pety Guerrero, a tireless promoter of Paulo Freire’s “Southern Pedagogy,” focuses on the Indigenous Rarámuri and Ódame communities in Tarahumara, Mexico. Entitled Where There Were Forests of Colossal Pine Trees, the book documents the dispossession of these communities from their ancestral lands and forms of resistance they
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