Issue Dec 01-31 2023: On Sunday, December 10, 2023, Javier Milei took office as president of Argentina. He claimed that he had inherited the nastiest situation ever bestowed on an Argentine president. He told Argentines that there is “no money,” and that they should expect lots of pain to rectify the horrible situation caused by

Issue Nov 15-30 2023: On November 19, 2023, Argentines voted in a run-off election for president between the Peronista Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, and the flamboyant Javier Milei, candidate of Libertad Avanza, a newly formed “Libertarian” party. The contest took place in an atmosphere of intense agitation over Argentina’s high rate of inflation. What

Issue Nov 08-14 2023: In 2021, Nicaraguan ruler Daniel Ortega began the process of pulling Nicaragua out of the Organization of American States following its refusal to recognize his victory in elections during which all his rivals were either in jail or in exile. That dynamic reflected a crisis in Nicaragua that began in 2018

Issue Nov 01-07 2023: On November 1, 2023, Francisco Bustillo resigned as Uruguay’s Foreign Minister after recordings of a conversation he had in November 2022 with then Deputy-Foreign Minister Carolina Ache about drug trafficker Sebastián Marset (currently the subject of an international manhunt) went viral. The opposition had criticized the government for fast tracking a

Issue Oct 25-31 2023: On October 29, 2023, Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s allies largely lost in municipal and provincial elections. The result was widely proclaimed a clear sign of the broad and growing discontent with his left-leaning government and does not bode well for his promised reforms to the health system and labor relations. Governorships

Issue Oct 18-24 2023: On October 22, 2023, Argentina held its general election. Sergio Massa, the current minister of economy and presidential candidate of the ruling Peronista Unión por la Patria coalition, came in first with more than 36% of the vote, over the far-right economist and member of Congress, Javier Milei of the La

Issue Oct 11-17 2023: On October 15, 2023, Daniel Noboa Azín, the son of banana tycoon Álvaro Noboa, was elected to become Ecuador’s youngest-ever president at age 35 after defeating lawyer Luisa González in the runoff election to replace incumbent President Guillermo Lasso. In May 2023, Lasso initiated the so-called “muerte cruzada” through which he

Issue Oct 04-10 2023: On October 10, 2023, Guatemala marked more than a week of blockades and national strike. Protesters demanded the resignation of the attorney general and head of the Ministerio Público, Consuelo Porras, whom they accuse of trying to reverse the results of the general elections held this year. Indeed, President-elect Bernardo Arévalo

Issue Sep 27-Oct 03 2023: On September 28, 2023, thousands of women (and many men as well) took to the streets across Latin America to mark International Safe Abortion Day. Wearing, carrying, and waving green scarves, flags, and banners, they marched in cities throughout Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Venezuela, and Ecuador, among other

Issue Sep 20-26 2023: On September 26, 2023, Mexicans marked the ninth anniversary of the abduction (and probable murder) of the 43 “normalistas,” and the confirmed murder of 3 more, from the Escuela Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero. In the months after the disappearances, then President Enrique Peña Nieto’s attorney general, Jesús