The country’s new president-elect Jair Bolsonaro presents grave threats to Brazil’s society, economy, and democracy.

There has been a return to the right-wing presidency in Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, and Brazil, bringing up uncertainty for what the future in Latin American politics holds and why there is this turn to the right.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or AMLO, will assume the Mexican presidency in less than a month, and his new party, Morena, holds a majority in both chambers of Congress.

The source of the tension that has caused this divide is the involvement of the International Monetary Fund and antagonism against the current administration.

Despite the perceived failure of the Peace Jurisdiction Reform project (JEP), negotiations are moving forward.

Democracy, a political concept that most of us cherish, is at its core “a system for organizing society,” and a relatively new one at that.

The 2015 Salvadoran elections were a complicated debacle involving three different elections, national councils, deputies to the Central American Parliament and municipal councils.

The Constitutional Court of Colombia has ratified the ability of governmental entities to veto public officials who do not pay their sanctions.

Keiko Fujimori’s legal problems have left her party in a crisis marked by numerous resignations, resulting in uncertainty for Fujimorism and the country as a whole with her troubled party holding a wide congressional majority.

As the caravan of Central American immigrants made its way toward Tapachula, Chiapas, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) pled for their protection and safe passage.