As the Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro (PSL) approaches a likely electoral victory, each branch of the armed forces has begun to speculate on changes in senior leadership.

Fuerza Popular (FP) leader Keiko Fujimori was detained and ordered to serve ten days of preliminary detention for charges of money laundering alongside her husband, Mark Vito, and 19 other party members of FP on October 10, 2018.

Argentina’s next presidential election is a year away, so political polls are scanning public opinion to determine likely candidates.

The Brazilian elections, which took place on October 7, 2018, revealed that Brazilian politics are becoming increasingly conservative.

Although the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), the party of Bolivian incumbent president Evo Morales, has enacted legislation to limit the opposition’s registration of party members for the upcoming presidential election, these actions have not been well-received.

Worker’s Party presidential candidate Fernando Haddad is shifting his campaign amid low poll numbers.

This past week, Jorge Muñoz won the race by a landslide to become Lima’s mayor.

In 2013, the Supreme Court of Argentina sentenced former president Carlos Menem to seven and a half years in prison and disqualification from holding office for violating secret 1990s agreements to sell weapons to Panama and Venezuela and having trafficked these arms to Ecuador and Croatia instead.

In Venezuela, the Maduro government is pushing forward a new constitution, secretively and anti-democratically.

With the fifth decade of Bolivian democracy on the horizon, activists and political opposition organized national protests warning of institutional rupture.