The upcoming 2020 presidential debate in Bolivia will compare ideas between candidates, strengthen voter confidence, and provide proposals for the wellbeing of the country.

On Monday, January 6, President Jair Bolsonaro stated that “journalists are an endangered race” in yet another attack against the press.

El Salvador’s Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena) voted unanimously to approve President Nayib Bukele’s 2020 Budget proposal.

–Researched and written by Robert Avery— On November 10, 2019, Evo Morales, former president of Bolivia, resigned after weeks of protests in response to his recent election for a fourth term. Political opposition and dissidents called for his removal and resignation on the grounds of abuse of power and the manipulation of due political process.

–Written by Samantha Lee— Three Mexican analysts weighed in on the changes – or lack thereof – that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known as AMLO) has made during his first year in power. Each one teased at the idea that what AMLO sells as radical change might just be a continuation of the

Alternative candidates, who have largely positioned themselves against the norm of government and political parties in Colombia, triumphed at the ballot boxes in 2019, but the traditional parties are far from defeated or disappearing.

The year left a bitter taste for Venezuelans, who once again lost the opportunity to recover their democracy.

In the capital city of the Dominican Republic, ex-president Leonel Fernández is preparing himself and his political group Fuerza del Pueblo (Power of the People) for a new electoral campaign.

Mirko Lauer was invited to read from pages of Metamemorias, the autobiography of Peruvian ex-president Alan García. He read 500 pages of the autobiography at the foot of García’s casket, one day after his suicide.

A recent survey carried out by the Fundación Nicaragüense para el Desarrollo Económico y Social (Funides) found that, under the Ortega dictatorship, 83% of Nicaraguans expressed a distrust of their neighbors, while only 2.5% expressed trust, and a total of 66% expressed distrust of the state.