Following the first round of elections on February 4, Costa Ricans will vote on April 1 in a runoff election to choose their next president.

The upcoming presidential and congressional elections in Colombia have been met with a general sense of disinterest from the public.

Following the prison sentence of leading presidential candidate Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s elections became marred by controversy and uncertainty, prompting fears of exceptionally low voter turnout.

Notable Venezuelan journalist, political consultant and human rights activist, Roger Santodomingo penned an unauthorized biography to give readers critical insight on President Nicolás Maduro.

Since Juan Orlando Hernández’s re-election for the Honduran presidency in November 2017, former president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, has been participating in marches protesting the election results.

Salvador Nasralla of Honduras is a “king without a crown.” A two-time front-runner in the presidential elections of Honduras, Nasralla, and most of the country, feel that he has been robbed of the presidency both times.

Documents provided to Peruvian authorities by Marcelo Odebrecht in November 2017 and now made public, show that the Brazilian construction company was able to buy influence all the way to current President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.

Brazil’s former president and current presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sentenced to 12 years in prison on corruption charges, a development that will have serious consequences for this year’s presidential elections given his large lead in the polls.

Candidates for seats in the Senate and House of Representatives for Colombia have signed a list of ten rules, a “List of Decency,” that will be followed if they are elected to office.

In the middle of a turbulent election cycle in Latin America, former Latin American and Spanish presidents have released a declaration concerning the importance of maintaining democracy through the upcoming elections.