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

Issue Sep 03-09 2025: On September 7, 2025, Argentine President Javier Milei’s ruling La Libertad Avanza (LLA) party suffered a massive blow in the midterm elections in the province of Buenos Aires at the hands of his chief rivals in the Fuerza Patria, the name under which the Kirchnerista-Peronismo coalition participated in the contest. Voter

Issue Aug 27-Sep 02 2025: On August 27, 2025, Senators Gerardo Fernández Noroña, from the ruling Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional (Morena) bloc, and Alejandro Moreno, from the opposition Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), engaged in an embarrassing scene during which verbal confrontation ended in a physical clash, as they slapped at and shoved each other, as well

Issue Aug 20-26 2025: On August 22, 2025, the leaders of eight South American nations met in Colombia for the 5th Summit of Amazonian Countries with calls for the protection of the forest they share. They approved the Bogotá Declaration, a document that established a unified position for COP30, scheduled for November 10-21, 2025, in

Issue Aug 13-19 2025: On August 17, 2025, after almost two decades of rule by the Movimiento Al Socialismo or MAS in Bolivia, voters sent two right-leaning candidates to Bolivia’s presidential election run-off on October 19, 2025. Opposition senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira of the Partido Demócrata Cristiano led with 32%, followed by former President Jorge

Issue Aug 01-12 2025: On August 7, 2025, Colombian President Gustavo Petro intensified a diplomatic conflict with Peru by accusing it of violating border treaties over the disputed sovereignty of Santa Rosa de Yavarí Island, located in the Amazon River. Indeed, Petro accused Peru of illegally appropriating Colombian territory. Peru’s President, Dina Boluarte, “categorically” rejected