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.

Issue Feb 21-27 2024: During President Bernardo Arévalo’s participation in the first meeting of the National Food and Nutrition Security Council (Conasan), he asserted that it’s unacceptable that 50% of children under five years old in the country suffer from malnutrition.

Issue Feb 21-27 2024: Despite its longstanding reputation for political stability, high living standards, and an advanced social benefits system that set it apart from its Central American neighbors, Costa Rica’s deepening security crisis, spurred by drug trafficking, has struck fear into many of its citizens, who are now afraid that they might “lose their

Issue Feb 21-27 2024: At a “Breakfast for Unity” the Chilean political parties Revolución Democrática and Convergencia Social gave the official go-ahead for the referendum process by which the Frente Amplio will be unified.

Issue Feb 21-27 2024: The Permanent Assembly of the Peruvian Congress will debate and vote on whether to remove all active members of the National Judiciary Council (JNJ) from their posts.

Issue Feb 21-27 2024: Leonel Fernández, former president of the Dominican Republic and president of the Fuerza del Pueblo (FP) political party, said, “We have formalized a large opposition coalition to face the congressional elections next May with Rescate RD.