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.

It has been four years since the disappearance of the 43 students at the Ayotzinapa Teacher’s College in the town of Iguala in Guerrero, Mexico, in September 2014.

With Argentina slowly moving beyond one of the worst economic crises it has experienced in its modern history, the declarations of Justice Minister Germán Garavano have further increased political tensions in the region.

The recently formed Blue and White National Unity organization has claimed it assumed an “ethical commitment” that would prevent it from negotiating a pardon for the hundreds of deaths in protest of the regime’s brutality.

The far right candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, has been attacked by his rivals, questioned by the press, rejected by a growing feminist movement, and is diverging from his partner in the presidential ballot.