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.

Issue Aug 14-20 2024: Despite progress achieved by democratization in Latin America over the past four decades, frequent political alternation, hyper-presidentialism, and democratic fatigue now risk undermining democracy by prioritizing electoralism and the pursuit of power over genuine democratic engagement and representation.

Issue Aug 14-20 2024: Culture is one of the great human necessities, and the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre takes this truth to heart with its expansive collection of bookstores, cafes, restaurants, and markets.

Issue Aug 14-20 2024: Trust is essential for economic development, but Argentina’s political instability and divisive leadership have eroded this foundation.

Issue Aug 07-13 2024: The future of Latin America is uncertain. In the past forty years, the region has experienced a variety of different political periods.

Issue Aug 07-13 2024: Guatemalan media have repeatedly maintained that Guatemala has been a victim of mismanagement from the way there is corruption along the entire institutional framework of the country, and from how in the last month there has been another example of this corruption and how it has affected the entire population.

Issue Aug 07-13 2024: Despite being a goal expounded in its own constitution, Brazil’s efforts to seek continental integration, such as they are, have largely floundered, with crises in neighboring Haiti, Venezuela, and Nicaragua evidencing the inadequacy of Brazilian leadership in the region.

Issue Aug 01-07 2024: An open letter signed by more than 1,500 individuals to Brazil’s political parties has called for action to be taken against racial and gendered violence.

Issue Aug 01-07 2024: For organizations, groups, and commissions seeking truth and justice regarding state violence in Central and South America, it can often be a challenge to do so without relying on the state itself. In 2018, soon after López Obrador became the president of Mexico, the Comisión para la Verdad y Acceso a