An agreement with the Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) was reached that would obligate political parties to list female candidates first on lists of plurinominal candidates for senate or Camara de Diputados in 12 out of 28 districts in which women are the majority.

With presidential and parliamentary elections just around the corner, political polls are a common fixture in Chile and, for more than a year, they have shown a common trend.

In 2006, Eduardo Montealegre and José Rizo were unable to unite, facilitating the victory of the FSLN (Sandinista National Liberation Front).

After achieving a majority of the parliamentary vote, PEC 181/2011 (Proposal for an Amendment to the Constitution, no. 181) is now in the hands of the House plenary assembly.

The Guatemalan government ruled in favor of a law against terrorism, which seeks, among other things, to expand the penalties for using terror as a coercion to obtain benefit.

President Evo Morales said that if he runs in the 2019 election, he will win the vote by more than 70% and reiterated his criticisms against those who would possibly reject his candidacy.

The CGT Board of Directors met to discuss the Argentinian government proposals for the Labor Contract Law (LCT). Union leaders and labor lawyers are pushing for the rejection of the proposals.

The government and its intelligence organizations have formulated plans and hypotheses on how to impose communist dictatorship for almost two decades.