During the month of December, Chile saw an easing of the conflictive nature of the social crisis and advances in the process of institutionalizing changes to the country’s government.

Journalist Guillermo Fadanelli questions how humans process the past, probing the cultural traditions and truths embedded in language and inquiring how it can show us our roots.

Recent estimates announced by the Bank of Guatemala (Banguat) show that 22 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and 70 percent of jobs came from Guatemala’s informal economy.

The continuous, internationally covered social unrest in Santiago, started and driven mostly by young people, resulted in the Chilean government cancelling the COP25, an international forum on climate issues.

–Written by Samantha Lee— There is a wave of social upheaval and protest in Latin America; that much is undeniable to three Mexican international analysists, but each has their own take on what ties these movements together and why they’re going on right now. In the end, though, they all think it somehow comes down

Having elected a new president, many Argentinians are wary of what the change of power could mean for the country’s economy.

Carlos F. Chamorro returned to Nicaragua to demand the suspension of the illegal confiscation of Confidencial and the full restoration of democratic freedoms in the country.

Andrés Mora Ramírez analyzed the current geopolitical climate in Latin America and the waves of protest that are reaching almost every country in the region, with Chile, Ecuador, and Haiti being in the spotlight due the violent clashes between “el pueblo y el Estado” (the people and the state.)

The use of police forces to put down protests and the aggressiveness of the opposition in Bolivia are telling events that might reflect hard realities in other parts of the region.

Most of Latin America is facing the return of the Military Issue referred to as the centrality acquired by the threat and effective use of force as well as the place of civilian and democratic control of the armed forces.