Issue Nov 12-18 2025: On November 16, 2025, Chile held its general election in which eight candidates sought the presidency to succeed leftist Gabriel Boric. Leftist candidate Jeannette Jara edged out extreme conservative José Antonio Kast of the Partido Republicano to secure the top two spots, and now they will head toward the December 14

Issue Nov 05-11 2025: On November 9, 2025, the fourth summit between the European Union (EU) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) met in the Colombian city of Santa Marta, amid significant diplomatic friction and a noticeable lack of high-level engagement. The encounter was attended by only nine heads of state

Issue Oct 29-Nov 04 2025: In late October 2025, with his naval pressure on Venezuelan ships in the Caribbean (along with his multi-billion-dollar bailout of Javier Milei’s government in Argentina), U.S. President Donald Trump generated new worries about U.S. “gunboat diplomacy” and “Neo Imperialism” in Latin America. Editorialists and pundits weighed in.

Issue Oct 22-28 2025: On October 26, 2025, Argentine President Javier Milei’s La Libertad Avanza party (LLA) scored an unexpected victory in his nation’s legislative election. In the province of Buenos Aires, the Peronista heartland, he did much better than predicted, while securing over 40% of the vote nationwide to become the strongest force in

Issue Oct 15-21 2025: On October 19, 2025, Rodrigo Paz won the presidential runoff to become Bolivia’s next president. He secured 54.5% of the vote, defeating former right-wing President Jorge Tuto Quiroga, who received 45.4%. Paz’s victory put an end to 20 years of socialist governments in Bolivia. He previously served as a congressional deputy,

Issue 08-14 2025: On October 10, 2025, Peru’s one-chamber legislature removed Dina Boluarte from the presidency, citing her “permanent moral incapacity,” and installed Congress’s Speaker José Jerí as acting president just six months before the 2026 elections. Peru’s first female president, Boluarte had served for two years and ten months, having assumed office in late

Issue Oct 01-07 2025: On October 1, 2025, Claudia Sheinbaum completed her first year as president of Mexico with exceptionally high levels of support. Yet her first year in office was plagued by a series of scandals as well as challenges from drug trafficking, insecurity, corruption, and tensions with the United States. Pundits and editorialists

Issue Sep 24-30 2025: In late September 2025, protests intensified in Ecuador when the Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador (CONAIE) continued its indefinite strike, which went into effect on September 22, against the Government of President Daniel Noboa. His administration eliminated government subsidies for diesel fuel. The government reiterated that it would not negotiate

Issue Sep 17-23 2025: In the runup to the eleventh anniversary of the infamous night in Iguala, Guerrero, on September 26, 2014, when 43 students from the Escuela Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos in Ayotzinapa were disappeared, Mexicans in the streets, pundits, and commentators demanded that the government of President Claudia Sheinbaum make good on

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: On September 11, 2025, Brazil’s Supreme Court convicted former President Jair Bolsonaro for coup plotting and sentenced him to 27 years in prison. The momentous trial divided the nation and drew fury from U.S. President Donald Trump. The sentence, fully enforced, would see the 70-year-old far-right leader spend the rest of