Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is afraid populist ideologies might hinder the country’s economic and social progress.

The impeachment of Dilma Rousseff has not spelled the end of legal proceedings against her administration and that of her predecessor, Lula da Silva. The Public Ministry has claimed Lula was the “commander” in a scheme of national corruption according to an accusation accepted by Judge Moro, regardless of the fact that there does not

After a year of stalemate, lawmakers finally have come to an agreement over the candidates for the Consejo Nacional de Judicatura (CNJ) in El Salvador.

Resistance to change among political parties in Peru will limit what is achievable.

They have been roundly condemned for a late-night attempt to pass a broad amnesty law to clear politicians of campaign-fund crimes. 

A new study points to dissatisfaction with democracy driven by inequality, discrimination and disparity.

The mayor of the Argentine city of Lanús, Néstor Grindetti, has been implicated in a scandal in the wake of the Panama Papers leak.

Dialogue has all but come to a standstill among major political parties in the Dominican Republic. 

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega fights poverty and institutes generous social programs to win over voters. And his efforts appear to be bearing fruit.

Brazil’s Lower House formally voted to remove Eduardo Cunha, with an overwhelming vote of four hundred and fifty against him, to just ten in his favor. Several representatives abstained.