Many Mexicans have expressed dissatisfaction with the new Interior Security Law (LSI).

Attorney General Thelma Aldana assures that the president is not an ally against the fight to end corruption, while the interior minister, who worked alongside Aldana, defends the president.

Peru’s Registry of Political Organizations published its list of new political parties eligible to run for office in this year’s October elections.

Due to the events of the recent election held in Honduras, political movements and ideologies are beginning to appear to ensure that Honduras does not fall apart.

Voters in Costa Rica, Paraguay, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, and Venezuela go to the polls in national elections in 2018. Will widespread distrust following the massive Odebrecht corruption scandal lead them to usher populists, from the left or the right, to power? 

Amid Lula’s indictment on embezzlement charges, the Worker’s Party (PT) must defend his right to run in the 2018 presidential elections.

With the 2018 Mexican Presidential election quickly approaching, there still exists much contention between multiple candidates, as well as political uncertainty surrounding governmental reforms.

As the term of President Enrique Peña Nieto ends, at the beginning of this New Year many Mexicans look towards a hopefully brighter future with the upcoming presidential election. However, many citizens are also apprehensive, as no clear candidate with a corruption-free background has emerged.

Ex-president Rafael Correa will return from Belgium to Ecuador in order to garner votes in opposition to his successor, Lenín Moreno, in a general referendum to take place next month.

Economic scandals and party rivalry in Brazil point to a political future that is precarious, and unpredictable.