The Peruvian Congress, controlled by fujimorismo, and President Martín Vizcarra have clashed once again.

On September 10, 2018, Peruvian politician Keiko Fujimori testified before a congressional subcommittee to answer the accusation that a member of her party, the right-wing Fuerza Popular, had tried to influence the recent election of the president of the National Council of the Magistrate (CNM).

Former presidential candidate Ernesto Toro Pérez Balladares declared that, should he reach the presidency, he would ban the reelection of deputies because it is why political parties are kidnapped.

Governing the country is not turning out so easy a task for newly inaugurated president Iván Duque, due to “obstruction from the Centro Democrático.”

As the first round of votes in the Brazilian Presidential election approaches early this October, former President Lula’s effect on the race remains important even after he was disqualified from running.

The Brazilian presidential campaign is tied up in the last minute of the second half of its metaphorical soccer game, and the game’s outcome is as uncertain as ever.

After a violent attack against him on Thursday, September 6, 2018, Brazilian Presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro leads in the polls in a contentious election as a controversial far-right candidate.

On September 5, 2018, Carlos Calleja, businessman and presidential hopeful in the 2019 election in El Salvador, proposed a set of reforms before the Legislative Assembly designed to curb government corruption. However, almost all the laws Calleja proposed already exist.

Although Colombian President Iván Duque’s government is set to start with a slight majority in congress, the result is more complex.

Protesters in Nicaragua have continued to defy the Ortega regime despite months of violent conflict.