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On January 10, 2019, President Nicolás Maduro was inaugurated for a second term in office, after elections that were widely condemned as rigged and manipulated. The Organization of American States (OAS) voted not to recognize Maduro’s legitimacy, adopting a resolution supported by Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Canada, the United States, Paraguay, and Peru,

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On New Year’s Day 2019, Jair Bolsonaro was sworn in as Brazil’s 38th president. He promised to free his country from “socialism and political correctness,” while vowing to tackle corruption, crime, and economic mismanagement in Latin America’s largest nation. While he pledged to obey the Constitution and respect democratic norms, he later stood before a

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On December 1, 2018, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or AMLO as he is universally known, solemnly recited the oath of office and received the Mexican presidential sash from outgoing President Enrique Peña Nieto. AMLO is the first leftist president of Mexico since the 1930s, and since his party controls both houses of Congress, he began

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In the second half of November 2018, thousands of migrants from Central America, men, women, and children, trekked to the United States-Mexico border, with a large portion streaming into Tijuana. They came seeking asylum in the U.S., fleeing violence, poverty, and discrimination in their home countries. After President Donald Trump repeatedly denigrated them, and asserted

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On November 8, 2018, Valeria Cruz Medel, 22, was killed as she worked out in a gym. The news of her killing was relayed by phone to her mother, Carmen Medel, on the floor of the Mexican Cámara de Diputados during a legislative session. Medel, a deputy for Veracruz from the Movimiento Regeneración Nacional party, or

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On October 31, 2018, Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori and leader of the right-wing Fuerza Popular party, was ordered to return to jail for her involvement in the massive corruption scandals currently jarring the higher reaches of power in Peru. Fujimori had been arrested on October 10 and released a week

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On October 28, 2018, Brazil held the second round of its presidential election, and as the polls had predicted, Jair Bolsonaro of the Partido Social Liberal (PSL) won handily. Bolsonaro, a retired army captain and undistinguished 27-year member of the lower house of the Brazilian congress, has repeatedly praised the Brazilian military dictatorship of 1964-1985,

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In mid-October 2018, a so-called “caravan” of thousands of Hondurans began a trek through Guatemala towards Mexico, with the ultimate goal of seeking asylum in the United States. Along the way, they were joined by Salvadorans, Nicaraguans, and Guatemalans. Though many were held up at the Mexican border, others were able to cross (legally and

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Archbishop Óscar Romero was assassinated in 1980 while celebrating Mass in San Salvador. On October 14, 2018, Pope Francis officially recognized him as a saint, three years after his beatification. Though originally recognized as a conservative cleric, Romero became an outspoken critic of the increasing political violence tolerated by El Salvador’s government at that time,

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On October 7, 2018, Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s far-right presidential candidate, just missed winning the presidency outright in the first round. He also led his formerly obscure party, the Partido Social Liberal or PSL, to the front of a crowded field in the race for Congress to become a national juggernaut, as voters in Latin America’s

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