–Written by Samantha Lee–– Mexican officials freed the “Chapo” Guzmán’s son, Ovidio Guzmán, in the face of violence (and further threatened violence) by the Sinaloa cartel in the city of Culiacán in Northern Mexico as part of a pressure campaign for his liberation.

President Mauricio Macri of Argentina is “on his way to collapse,” standing alongside Chilean president Sebastián Piñera.

President Daniel Ortega’s political bullying has left him isolated from the international community leaving him only with a conditional alliance with Cuba.

Former Vice President Alberto Dahik Garzozi reflected on the state of Ecuadorian politics following days of protests and riots caused by a government proposition to end gas subsidies.

Óscar Clemente Marroquín has been a journalist for more than 50 years, and considers himself a firm enemy of any form of dictatorship and political corruption, and anything that negatively impacts the lives of his fellow Guatemalans.

Mexico is at a pivotal point in respect to its agricultural strength despite many misconceptions regarding its position on the international level.

How Democracies Die, written by Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, warns that our present democracies are taking terrible risks.

Counterpoints: the presidential debate and the National Meeting of Women.

The student protest of October 2, 1968, contesting the regime of Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, led to the death of hundreds of students at the hands of military and para-police officers, but 51 years later, the culprits have not been convicted.

Fraud from the government in Argentina is expected in the upcoming elections due to the digital software used, corruption, and Argentina’s past history of electoral fraud.