Issue Mar 06-12 2024: President Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua gave the Ministry of the Interior (MINT) control of the production and organization of public activities and artistic performances.

Issue Mar 06-12 2024: In a vote marked by irregularities, the right-wing majority Peruvian Congress removed and disqualified two magistrates from the National Board of Justice (JNJ) for ten years.

Issue Mar 06-12 2024: Amid accusations of sabotaging Venezuelan opposition candidate María Corina Machado’s campaign, Manuel Rosales, the governor of Zulia, and his party, Un Nuevo Tiempo (A New Era), reaffirmed their support for Machado.

Issue Mar 06-12 2024: Rather than yet just another problem to be solved, Cuba’s current political crisis is the clearest indication in the last ten years of the fundamental non-viability of its current model of government.

Issue Feb 28-Mar 05 2024: Maria Corina Machado, the presidential candidate of the Venezuelan opposition party Plataforma Unitaria, says that the Maduro administration “intends to be ignorant of” the guarantees established by the Consejo Nacional Electoral for the presidential elections in July.

Issue Feb 28-Mar 05 2024: The two frontrunners in Mexico’s 2024 campaign are women, giving rise to the prospect of a female president in the historically machista country.

Issue Feb 28-Mar 05 2024: A study commissioned by UN Women found that nearly half of Uruguayans are in favor of establishing a ‘parity law’ that would require a 50/50 split of men and women in political positions.

Issue Feb 28-Mar 05 2024: As his efforts to overhaul Colombia’s conservative economic model continue to face congressional opposition, leftist President Gustavo Petro has turned to undemocratic means.

Issue Feb 28-Mar 05 2024: The results of the recent municipal elections demonstrated that the overwhelming support of Salvadorans for President Nayib Bukele was not replicated with the mayors.

Issue Feb 28-Mar 05 2024: Bolsonaro is finished, but Bolsonarism remains.