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

Issue May 20-26 2026: On May 20, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice filed formal charges against former Cuban President Raúl Castro and five other Cuban military officers on counts of murder, conspiracy to murder U.S. citizens, and destruction of aircraft, in connection with February 24, 1996, downing of two civilian planes operated by the

Issue May 13-19 2026: In mid-May 2026, the center of La Paz saw a three-hour pitched battle as thousands of miners and campesinos clashed with police forces who were trying to prevent their entry to Plaza Murillo. Protesters threw dynamite charges at the police, who responded with tear gas. The Army, deployed around the square

Issue May 06-12 2026: The final vote count confirmed that when Peru holds its presidential runoff on June 7, 2026, Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), will stand against Roberto Sánchez, a congressman and self-proclaimed political heir of Pedro Castillo, the rural school teacher who reached the presidency in 2021 and is