A 58-year-old man from Ponce, Puerto Rico, has arrived in Santo Domingo Norte bearing the name of his father, Joaquín Balaguer.

The president-elect of Panama, Laurentino Nito Cortizo, says that it is his goal to organize a referendum, a direct vote open to the people, to decide on the passage of constitutional reforms that will comprise the legislature to be created by the National Assembly on July 1 of 2020.

Recent court proceedings in Peru highlight important differences regarding due process and the relationship between the offices of the Attorney General and the Judicial Power.

Guatemala’s political system is fraught with corruption, which is dominating the current election cycle despite an ongoing movement to root out inequality and impunity from prosecution.

Ortega’s intransigence in negotiations with the Civic Alliance might signal the failure of the second attempt at a dialogue regarding the release of political prisoners.

Twenty years ago, as a representative, Pablo Duarte brought a bag full of guns and ammunition and displayed them to the Congress as a gesture in support of the free use of these weapons.

The longtime government instability within Colombia has been characterized by profoundly divided parties and institutional fragility.

Tensions in Venezuela continue to rise between President Nicolás Maduro and the president of the Asamblea Nacional (AN), Juan Guaidó.

–Written by Aaron Freeman— Laurentino Cortizo and the Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) have won electoral victories and look forward to changes in Panama’s international image and policies.

On April 7, 2019, district attorney Germán Juárez Atoche indicted former Peruvian president Ollanta Humala and his wife Nadine Heredia.