Issue Oct 15-21 2025: The Pacto Histórico political coalition’s decision to make use of legislative primaries in selecting its candidates pays service to the tradition of internal democracy so closely associated with the Polo Democrático Alternativo, one of the first party organizations in Colombia to standardize the democratic selection of its officials.

Issue Oct 15-21 2025: Once again, Peru finds itself at a tipping point. In less than a decade, the country has witnessed the fall of five presidents, the dissolution of its congress, and an attempted coup d’état, sowing widespread public distrust in state institutions and the democratic system.

Issue Oct 08-14 2025: Colombian President Gustavo Petro is filling the plazas with citizens coming in droves to support him, worrying his political opponents.

Issue Oct 08-14 2025: The leader of Bolivia’s Unidad alliance, Samuel Doria Medina, has announced that he will present a program for structural reforms to the Political Constitution of the State (CPE).

Issue Oct 08-14 2025: The political winds have shifted for Argentinian president Javier Milei and his new political campaign is characterized by defensiveness more than it is by triumphalism.

Issue Oct 08-14 2025: Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) held a “historic work meeting” with representatives from 58 local political parties around the country, the goal of which was to discuss the latter’s demand to be included in the debate over the electoral reform proposed by President Claudia Sheinbaum.

Issue Oct 08-14 2025: On October 14, while in Rome where he was attending the World Forestry Congress and meeting with Pope Leo XIV, Chilean President Gabriel Boric gave a speech for the National Meeting of Businesses (Enade) taking place in his own country.

Issue Oct 01-07 2025: The Uruguayan Senate will vote on October 15th on a law legalizing euthanasia, and predictions are that the law will pass.

Issue Oct 01-07 2025: Honduras has begun printing ballots in anticipation of its general elections on November 30.  The printing of the 18 million ballots—including 5 for presidential candidates, 298 for candidates to municipal mayorships, 120 for candidates to the national congress, and 20 for candidates to the Central American congress—was assigned to 12 printing

Issue Oct 01-07 2025: In the midst of a fiercely battled political season as elections draw near, Bolivia is facing deep uncertainty about its future economic prospects. According to Manuel Morales, the leader of the South American country’s National Committee on the Defense of Democracy (Conade), neither of the presidential candidates have given a clear