Currently, Paraguay has a law called Servicio Militar Obligatorio (SMO), which mandates that all citizens must serve in the barracks or conscientiously object military service.

The Argentinian government is using repressive and punitive measures as a means to gather electoral support.

Both Mauricio Macri and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) have complicated political histories, and their candidacy in Argentina’s 2019 presidential election will polarize the country.

Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra declared with all authority by law that “the public ministry is in a state of emergency.”

–Researched and written by Josh Anthony— On October 28, 2018, Jair Bolsonaro, a man named “the most misogynistic, hateful elected official in the democratic world” by a 2014 article, won the Brazilian presidential election with 55% of the popular vote. Throughout his career, which began in the army during Brazil’s military dictatorship, Bolsonaro has unabashedly

–Researched and written by Marisa Dinko— Peruvian politics have seen corruption in a variety of forms. One common thread for the illegal actions seen in the Fuerza Popular, however, is the Fujimori family. Alberto Fujimori and his daughter, Keiko Fujimori have both been prominent leaders for the political party, and have both also been accused

–Researched and written by Rachel Rosenberg— On November 28, 2018, Bolivia’s Tribunal Constitucional Plurinacional (TCP) overturned constitutional reelection limits, allowing current Head of State Evo Morales to bid for the presidency a fourth time, potentially extending his 12-year-long consecutive leadership into 2025. Ironically, this decision overturns the two-term reelection rule that Morales’ government put in

–Researched and written by Gabriela Mendoza— On April 18, 2018, protesters gathered in Managua, Nicaragua, and in six other cities around the country to publicly object to social security reforms that increased contributions and lowered benefits. Since the start of these protests, the issue at hand has turned to the broader repressive government and resulted

In Colombia, 2018 was a year of elections, of the slow death of the peace treaty, of student protests, and of the arrival a new government that is already lost.

“Democratic reforms in the contexts of the political, of politics, and of politicians is, at the core, a proposal for the advancement toward the construction of a new democracy in El Salvador.”