Hugo Yasky, president of the Argentine CTA, spoke at a rally held on International Workers Day in which he delivered a passionate speech, calling for an end to social injustice, widespread hunger, and poverty.

The process of decentralization has been a matter of important discussion in Colombia. However, the process toward decentralization has moved slowly and has not contributed to diminishing corruption nor to improving democracy.

Survey results indicated nostalgia for Luiz Inácio Lula’s leadership and showed that no candidate would come close in both the first and second ballot.

Javier Duarte, the ex-governor of Veracruz, Mexico has been captured in Guatemala and is being detained for charges of money laundering during his six-year administration.

The publication of the book, “Chile today: Crisis and Debate from the Left,” provides a clear picture of the ideological and cultural identities of the Chilean left that are transforming political spaces.

Peruvian congressional representatives Alejandra Aramayo and Úrsula Letona, of the Popular Strength Party, introduced six bills to regulate the freedom of newspaper companies.

–Researched and written by Sara Van Velkinburgh   While the Mexican elections are a little more than a year away, several individuals have announced their candidacy, many as independents. The large number of presidential hopefuls is in part, a response to the uncertainty of the Mexican economy and never-ending security and drug-trafficking problems. The Zapatista

Daniel Ortega’s administration has fired more than 34 mayors, vice-mayors and council members of various Nicaraguan municipalities since 2008 for reasons not entirely clear to the public.

This is less a clash of political parties than a contest between “electoral bureaucracies.”

In about a year President Raúl Castro says he will step down and no longer lead Cuba’s Council of State and Council of Ministers, perhaps accompanied by other members of the Revolutionary Generation.