Issue Sep 02-08 2026: U.S. President Donald Trump took multiple jabs at Mexico over a single weekend. On Friday, September 4, and Saturday, September 5, 2026, Trump once again lashed out at Mexico on multiple fronts, including environmental and trade issues, and even the name of the U.S. state of New Mexico. Commentators had thoughts.

Issue Aug 26-Sep 01 2026: Brazil’s political landscape has entered a phase of high tension ahead of the October 4, 2026, general election. Recent polls point to a tightening contest between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, seeking re-election, and Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro. Although the incumbent remains in the lead,

Issue Aug 19-25 2026: On August 18, 2026, Bolivian Police arrested Fernando Cerimedo as he tried to board an Aerolíneas Argentinas flight to Buenos Aires at Bolivia’s Viru Viru airport in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Hours beforehand, Cerimedo’s ex-partner, Bolivian lawyer and activist Nadia Beller, had been shot multiple times in a hotel doorway

Issue Aug 12-18 2026: August 13, 2026, marked the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Fidel Castro. Commentary was divided, naturally, between his lovers and his haters, though not without nuance. Many Latin American leftists and intellectuals remain unrepentant in their adoration for the Cuban revolutionary Comandante, though others, and not all on the

Issue Aug 01-11 2026: Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella, who took office on August 7, 2026, vowed to capture or kill ten leaders of illegal armed groups during the first 90 days of his term. The pledge, made during his campaign, is the centerpiece of the “shock plan” with which he plans to reverse

Issue Jul 01-31 2026: On July 19, 2026, Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega said that his country will no longer hold elections as a mechanism to impede the opposition from reaching power. “There will be no more elections here for them to try to seize the government, to seize power,” he declared during an event in

Issue Jun 17-30 2026: On June 21, 2026, Colombia elected conservative lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella president with a particularly narrow margin in a hotly contested race against leftist Senator Iván Cepeda. His arrival seems to indicate a return to business-friendly and pro-U.S. policies after four years of leftist rule under Gustavo Petro. Commentors explored

Issue Jun 10-16 2026: In mid-June 2026, pressure continued to mount on Argentine President Javier Milei’s Cabinet chief Manuel Adorni after he admitted that he had omitted U.S. $500,000 from his asset declarations, prompting a fresh opposition complaint and criticism from allies of Milei’s government. Lawmakers from opposition Coalición Cívica party filed a criminal complaint

Issue Jun 03-09 2026: Days after the June 7, 2026, second-round presidential election, Peruvians waited for a final count. With 98.22 percent of the tally sheets processed, Keiko Fujimori held 50.003 percent of the vote against Roberto Sánchez’s 49.997 percent, according to data that the Oficina Nacional de Procesos Electorales (ONPE) published on its website.

Issue May 27-Jun 02 2026: In Colombia’s general elections on May 31, 2026, the right-wing candidate Abelardo de la Espriella pulled out a surprise first round victory in the presidential contest over favorite leftist Senator Iván Cepeda. De la Espriella, a right-wing millionaire lawyer who vows to wield an iron fist against narco gangs, took