Peruvians voted overwhelmingly to eliminate the re-election of parliamentarians in Sunday’s referendum on constitutional reforms presented by President Martín Vizcarra to fight corruption.

Iván Duque Márquez, who was elected president of Colombia in August 2018, has recently completed his first 100 days in office.

Odebrecht, a Brazilian-based conglomerate of diverse industries including “construction, infrastructure, real estate, petroleum, and transport” throughout Latin America, is considered one of the most important corporations in the region.

On November 25, 2018, oppositional alliances had intended to have a protest demanding the liberation of six hundred demonstrators who have been incarcerated under “inhumane” conditions.

El Salvador’s legislative body recently elected members to the country’s Constitutional Court for the 2018-2027 term.

Former Peruvian President Alan García entered the Uruguayan embassy and applied for asylum, hours after being banned from leaving his home country while under investigation for corruption.

A task force initiated by Renovación Nacional (RN) representatives in the Chamber of Deputies seeks to escort Chile Vamos and its institutional reforms through multiple executive terms.

In Guatemala, public pressure from private industries have raised alarms among the judiciary on their independence citing a hypocritical concern by the private sector to promote judiciary independence while at the same time pressuring them through the use of press conferences and public statements.

On November 12, 2018, the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH) released a letter signed by a number of politicians, intellectuals, and activists denouncing the constitutional reform proposal because it “does not respond to democratic principles nor the political or social plurality of Cuban society” and has been created “exclusively for the Communist Party and

In the past year, Chile has seen the rise of a new movement in the left: the Frente Amplio.