–Researched and written by Rachel Rosenberg— On November 28, 2018, Bolivia’s Tribunal Constitucional Plurinacional (TCP) overturned constitutional reelection limits, allowing current Head of State Evo Morales to bid for the presidency a fourth time, potentially extending his 12-year-long consecutive leadership into 2025. Ironically, this decision overturns the two-term reelection rule that Morales’ government put in
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–Researched and written by Gabriela Mendoza— On April 18, 2018, protesters gathered in Managua, Nicaragua, and in six other cities around the country to publicly object to social security reforms that increased contributions and lowered benefits. Since the start of these protests, the issue at hand has turned to the broader repressive government and resulted
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In Colombia, 2018 was a year of elections, of the slow death of the peace treaty, of student protests, and of the arrival a new government that is already lost.
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“Democratic reforms in the contexts of the political, of politics, and of politicians is, at the core, a proposal for the advancement toward the construction of a new democracy in El Salvador.”
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Peruvians voted overwhelmingly to eliminate the re-election of parliamentarians in Sunday’s referendum on constitutional reforms presented by President Martín Vizcarra to fight corruption.
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Iván Duque Márquez, who was elected president of Colombia in August 2018, has recently completed his first 100 days in office.
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Odebrecht, a Brazilian-based conglomerate of diverse industries including “construction, infrastructure, real estate, petroleum, and transport” throughout Latin America, is considered one of the most important corporations in the region.
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On November 25, 2018, oppositional alliances had intended to have a protest demanding the liberation of six hundred demonstrators who have been incarcerated under “inhumane” conditions.
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El Salvador’s legislative body recently elected members to the country’s Constitutional Court for the 2018-2027 term.
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