It’s been over sixteen months since students started protesting throughout Nicaragua, condemning the oppression and the attacks against freedom and democracy in the country.

After hearing a couple of truisms, far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro instrumentally branded French President Emmanuel Macron a colonialist, an indirect appeal to Brazilian nationalism.

The moment of truth is soon to arrive for Colombian ex-president Uribe: he will have to testify before the Supreme Court of Justice for crimes of witness bribery and procedural fraud.

The CICIG conducted investigations and made an analysis to demonstrate why Guatemala has been cited as an example of a failed state, but also suggests that there’s still hope for the country.

The economic strength of the Argentine peso continues to suffer as many expect that the backpedaling from many of the economic policies that President Mauricio Macri pushed is too little and too late.

In the wake of a new policy from the President of Paraguay, Mario Abdo Benítez, and the head of the Instituto Nacional de Desarrollo Rural y de la Tierra (Indert), Horacio Torres, farmers and citizens alike are protesting.

“Institutions are democracy’s heritage. […] To reduce the number of institutions is to reduce democracy. This is what is happening in Mexico.”

A survey of citizens in Bolivia shows that there are only 3 percentage points between presidential candidates Evo Morales with 31% and Carlos Mesa with 28%.

The Colombian Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) has set a date for Senator Álvaro Uribe Vélez to present his version of the facts in cooperation with its investigation.

The former president of the High Level Commission for Political Reform (CANRP), Fernando Tuesta Soldevilla, was optimistic with the enactment of four laws regarding cases of registration and cancellation of parties, internal democracy, party financing, and gender parity and alternation.