As the first round of votes in the Brazilian Presidential election approaches early this October, former President Lula’s effect on the race remains important even after he was disqualified from running.

The Brazilian presidential campaign is tied up in the last minute of the second half of its metaphorical soccer game, and the game’s outcome is as uncertain as ever.

After a violent attack against him on Thursday, September 6, 2018, Brazilian Presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro leads in the polls in a contentious election as a controversial far-right candidate.

On September 5, 2018, Carlos Calleja, businessman and presidential hopeful in the 2019 election in El Salvador, proposed a set of reforms before the Legislative Assembly designed to curb government corruption. However, almost all the laws Calleja proposed already exist.

Although Colombian President Iván Duque’s government is set to start with a slight majority in congress, the result is more complex.

Protesters in Nicaragua have continued to defy the Ortega regime despite months of violent conflict.

How does Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s victory reflect on Enrique Peña Nieto’s past term?

In Guatemala, a special commission in Congress is moving forward in analyzing the request to remove President’s Jimmy Morales’ immunity by the country’s Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP) and the International Commission Against impunity in Guatemala, more commonly known as the CICIG.

During August, the Cuban police arbitrarily detained at least 208 people, with one detention ending in death.

In an interview with El País, the former Tupamaro guerilla and ex-president of Uruguay, José Mujica, discussed Latin America, populism, and his legacy.