In Brazil, the current presidential election seems to bring about ingredients for authoritarian rule.

Large-scale, organized union protests and strikes against economic policies have rocked Mauricio Macri’s administration in Argentina. 

Former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo expressed his opinion towards drug policy during a Global Commission on Drug Policy meeting. The ex-president stated that “prohibition should be eliminated and instead, we should have policies of regulation.”

As popular conceptions of the management of the Partido de la Social Democracia Brasileña (PSDB) falter, the centrist parties in the country stand at a precipice.

Former president Tony Saca and six others from the Arena party were sentenced for corruption on September 12, 2018.

Part of the continual protest and struggle that began in April, thousands of Nicaraguans gathered in Managua in Sunday, September 16, 2018, demanding the resignation of President Daniel Ortega and the immediate release of more than 300 political prisoners.

The Peruvian Congress, controlled by fujimorismo, and President Martín Vizcarra have clashed once again.

On September 10, 2018, Peruvian politician Keiko Fujimori testified before a congressional subcommittee to answer the accusation that a member of her party, the right-wing Fuerza Popular, had tried to influence the recent election of the president of the National Council of the Magistrate (CNM).

Former presidential candidate Ernesto Toro Pérez Balladares declared that, should he reach the presidency, he would ban the reelection of deputies because it is why political parties are kidnapped.

Governing the country is not turning out so easy a task for newly inaugurated president Iván Duque, due to “obstruction from the Centro Democrático.”