Issue Oct 21-27 2026: Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s comeback victory on October 25, 2026, over his right-wing rival Senator Flávio Bolsonaro energized progressive forces around the world. Yet it also revealed a deeply divided democracy. The right lost the presidency but strengthened its congressional representation. The challenge will be to govern a

Issue Oct 14-20, 2026: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro headed into the final days of the campaign for the October 25 runoff in a statistical tie, according to new polls. A Datafolha survey gave Bolsonaro 51% of valid votes and Lula 49%, compared with 52% and 48% a week earlier,

Issue Oct 07-13 2026: At a moment when rightwing governments seem to be surging across Latin America, over 60% of Chileans disapprove of the administration of far-right President José Antonio Kast just seven months into his term. And according to the same recent poll, over 80% say his government falls well short of their expectations,

Issue Sep 30-Oct 06 2026: On October 4, 2026, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro won around 47% of the vote in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election, ahead of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who took about 45%. As neither passed half of the valid votes, the two will face each other in a runoff

Issue Sep 23-29 2026:  Twelve years have passed since the night of September 26, 2014 when 43 students from the Escuela Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos de Ayotzinapa were forcibly disappeared in Iguala, Guerrero. More than a decade later the investigation still faces unresolved issues that the families consider fundamental to understanding what happened to

Issue Sep 16-22 2026: Since the United States abducted and imprisoned Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2026, acting President Delcy Rodríguez has tried to find a path forward with Donald Trump, who shows more interest in Venezuelan oil than in Venezuelan democracy. Largely pushed to the side, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado

Issue Sep 09-15 2026: On September 11, 2026, Chile marked the 53rd Anniversary of the 1973 coup by Augusto Pinochet against the elected government of Salvador Allende without an official event for the first time since the nation’s return to democracy. The government of President José Antonio Kast broke with the tradition of institutional ceremonies

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