In a video uploaded to Facebook, retired general Mauricio Ávila Medina criticized the government’s security policy.

Politician Rubén Maldonado commented on the controversial exodus of peledeístas (members of the Dominican Liberation Party or PLD) to a new political organization headed by former president Leonel Fernández, La Fuerza del Pueblo (The Power of the People) or LFP.

Audio recordings of conversations between two Peruvian attorneys involved in anti-corruption initiatives and Martín Belaunde, a businessman seeking a plea deal in relation to his involvements in Operation Carwash and the corruption scandal around former Peruvian president César Álvarez, reveal that the attorneys appeared to have shaped Belaunde’s testimony to fit the official story.

After 20 days of social turmoil as a result of the Reform 883, which would increase the price of fossil fuels, the Ecuadorian president Lenín Moreno is not listening to the people.

When Rosario Murillo refers to the enemies of the Ortega-Murillo regime as “termites” set against the loyal “frogs,” are these signs of politics deteriorating into mere tribalism or the curses of an increasingly impotent government?

The right-wing electoral coalition recently unveiled its plan for education, which drew sharp criticism from the head of an association of public educators.

After the presidential election in 2015, many felt Mauricio Macri would change politics in Argentina as the first non-Radical or Peronist President. He has not met these expectations and showed trends of past politicians.

With two thirds of the deputies present, Venezuela’s National Assembly approved the appointment of nine of the eleven deputies who will be part of the preliminary commission, as the first step in appointing the nine rectors of the National Electoral Council.

The Special Multiparty Commission in Honduras has decided small political parties will no longer get a seat at the voting table, where the country’s political parties oversee decisions of voting policy.

Claudia López of the Alianza Verde (Green Alliance) party won the race for mayor of Bogotá with 35.21 % of the vote. Political alliances proved to be more important in the race than her political agenda.