Among 84 candidates, there are only 7 women.

On January 14, the second year of Guatemala’s ninth legislature officially began.

With police reforms imminent in the Dominican Republic, President Luis Abinader has announced the creation of a new task force that will protect victims of domestic and gendered violence.

Among concerns of growing coronavirus numbers and the lingering presence of former president Rafael Correa’s Revolución Ciudadana, Ecuador enters the period of election campaigns to decide its next president.

As a result of the protests in late 2019, a referendum was passed in October of 2020 to write a new constitution.

In Colombia, mayors all throughout the country are being subjected to revocation.

Celso Pansera, former Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation, says that the scientific fields in Brazil are close to collapse due to budget cuts by the government of Jair Bolsonaro.

The coronavirus pandemic is causing politicians to seriously adjust their campaign strategies, resulting in fewer crowds and distanced events and rallies; however, this year’s candidates will face a political party on the ballot that has never before appeared in an El Salvadoran election.

–Researched and Written by Baylee Easterday— On December 11, 2020, Argentina’s lower house of Congress, the Chamber of Deputies, approved the controversial Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy initiative (IVE), which legalizes abortion up to 14 weeks into a pregnancy. In this majority Catholic country, abortion was historically only authorized in the cases of rape or danger

–Researched and Written by Laura Conwell— On Thursday, December 17, the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) voted that the COVID-19 vaccine could be obligatory, including for children. Ten of eleven judges approved the measure which allows local, regional, and municipal governments to punish any individuals through “indirect” means for refusing to take the vaccine.