Issue Mar 12-18 2025: The Peruvian Legislative Assembly has approved a law requiring NGOs operating within the South American nation to obtain authorization from the Peruvian Agency of International Cooperation (APCI), which functions at the behest of the government, before pursuing their activities.

Issue Mar 12-18 2025: On Sunday, March 16th, former president Jair Bolsonaro led a demonstration in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, advocating for the amnesty of those convicted for the January 8, 2023 attack on Brazil’s democratic institutions.

Issue Mar 12-18 2025: Common components of contemporary politics are charisma and personalistic leadership; however, both can become unstable.

Issue Mar 12-18 2025: The young founder of the National Libertarian Party has been called the “Boric of the right” as he makes his bid for the Chilean elections later this year.

Issue Mar 12-18 2025: On the heels of the failure to pass his labor reform during the Seventh Senate Commission, Colombian President Gustavo Petro called upon his supporters to take to the streets in protest, a participatory call to action explicitly permitted in Colombia’s 1991 constitution.