Six months into his five-year term, Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez and his party, Frente Amplio, were already facing growing disapproval ratings.

The current ruling party in El Salvador, the FMLN, continues to search for a presidential candidate for the upcoming 2019 elections after the last two politicians decided to stay out of the party’s contest.

President Jimmy Morales of Guatemala has focused most of his presidency on destabilizing the fight against corruption, while also ignoring the topics of health, education, migration, and security.

Brazil’s federal court decided to uphold ex- president Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva’s sentence to 12 years and one month of prison.

Women and young people have dominated the recent elections of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) in the Dominican Republic.

Nicaraguan Vice-President Rosario Murrillo’s supposed “national debate” on the regulation of social media has solely involved government entities in an attempt to impose regulations on independent media and social media platforms.

At a lunch with troops from the General San Martín Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers, the president of Argentina, Mauricio Macri, made a particularly awkward inaccurate reference to the history of Argentina’s independence leader, General San Martín, for whom the regiment is named.

Two weeks after the Salvadoran legislative elections, results are beginning to substantially materialize over who the official winner is.

On March 11, elections were held for congressional candidates in Colombia. However, there were some logistical and technical difficulties that have led some to question how effective democracy really is in representing the people.

In Cuba, more than 95% of the deputies who will take office in April are members of the “militant organizations:” the Communist Party (PCC) and the Union of Young Communists (UJC). However, only 65% of the Cuban population adheres to one of those parties.