Issue Aug 13-19 2025: Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his co-president and wife Rosa Murillo have extended their repression beyond the scope of those that they consider enemies, and have been jailing iconic Sandinista leaders, fellow political travelers, ex-guerrilla fighters, bureaucrats, public employees, and police officers in system-wide purges under the pretext that these individuals

Issue Aug 13-19 2025: The winning primary candidate, Jeannette Jara, has garnered full support from the Christian Democrats to the Popular Party. The majority of these groups do not belong to the original factions that comprised the former Concertación of Parties for Democracy, but they are a significant indicator of the urgency that has accompanied

Issue Aug 13-19 2025: The Lula administration finalized a draft bill to regulate big tech companies in Brazil.

Issue Aug 13-19 2025: Axel Kicillof, the governor of Buenos Aires, announced that he would send a bill to the Buenos Aires Legislature declaring a state of emergency in national public works.

Issue Aug 13-19 2025: Among rising political tension in Honduras, one civil organization is calling for increased dialogue in order to promote peace in the country.

Issue Aug 01-12 2025: After 20 years, Bolivia is on its way to burying what remained of the Evo Morales era. Voting intention polls for the August 17 presidential elections indicate that the MAS would lose power.

Issue Aug 01-12 2025: As Colombian President Gustavo Petro approaches the last year of his mandate, questions swirl regarding whether he will be remembered as a leader who left a positive mark on the South American nation or as one who has weakened its institutions and eroded its democracy. His record has been mixed, but

Issue Aug 01-12 2025: Senator Juan Antonio Coloma, who has recently assumed a political coordination role in Evelyn Matthei’s campaign, describes the upcoming Chilean election as “probably one of the most complex of this century.”

Issue Aug 01-12 2025: The recent occupation of Brazil’s Congresso Nacional by bolsonaristas was not a one-off event, but part of an ongoing coup attempt embedded in the country’s far-right political movement.

Issue Aug 01-12 2025: The current regime faces signs of internal strain and public backlash.