–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.

Since the day of his election, Giammattei has had public rapprochements with questionable figures from Guatemalan politics.

With one year of governance under Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a political actor from the Left weighed the performance of his administration that “arrived with great expectations and too many structural, compound problems.”

Former president and leader of Frente Amplio (Broad Front), José Mujica, reflected on the loss of political ground to the National Party.

–Written by Nicholas Moore— On Friday, the 8th of November, 2019, at 17:32PM, after one year and seven months behind bars, Brazilian ex-president Lula exited the place of his imprisonment in Curitiba, State of Paraná. The news has spread throughout Latin America, receiving mixed reactions from the media in various countries and from the political