Issue Sep 17-23 2025: The unanimous decision of the senators formally buries the lower Câmara dos Deputados’ attempt to expand the prerogatives of legislators and party leaders, shielding them from prosecution and arrest. Yet the shelving of the so-called Shielding PEC by the Senate’s Comissão de Constituição e Justiça (CCJ) does not end the open

Issue Sep 17-23 2025: Nuclear sector workers held a day of mobilizations across the country against the privatization of Nucleoeléctrica Argentina S.A., NASA, the public company that manages the Atucha I, Atucha II, and Embalse nuclear power plants.

Issue Sep 17-23 2025: Reforms to Mexico’s Ley de Amparo (Protection Law) presented by the country’s executive branch on September 15 have not done away with this tool of constitutional control, but neither have they constituted a meaningful step toward ensuring universal access to justice for the public. In some not altogether trivial ways, in

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: To speak about Colombia’s current president, Gustavo Petro, is to speak about more than just his presidency; rather, it is to take on an historical anomaly, an accident regulated by the same system that allowed him to come to power.

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: In the midst of a worsening economic crisis, corruption scandals, and a hammering defeat in Argentina’s most important district, Argentinian President Javier Milei has somehow managed to deliver the best speech he has ever given before the public, one that fulfilled two contradictory goals: guaranteeing markets that the economy remains strong,

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: Fourteen of Mexico City’s newspapers published the exact same headline quoting President Sheinbaum on September 2nd: “We’re doing well and we’re going to get better.”

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: Interior Minister Carlos Negro appeared before the Finance and Budget Committee of the Chamber of Deputies to discuss his ministry’s budget.

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: The president indicated that Guatemala has climbed several positions in indicators related to civil rights, citizen participation, and the rule of law.

Issue Sep 03-09 2025: The Dominican Republic’s Partido Revolucionario Moderno (PRM) claims that the country is better off now than it was when the party first assumed power in August of 2020.

Issue Sep 03-09 2025: After recent negotiations in Mexico’s Federal Judiciary, Mónica Soto Fregoso, president of that entity’s Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF), noted that despite the fact that many of its members were “betting on the failure” of the reform under consideration during the negotiations, the fact that this phase of this process had been successfully