Issue Aug 20-26 2025: According to the international human-rights organization Artículo 19, Mexico is witnessing a sharp rise in the use of legal processes to censure journalists and communications media, posing a newly ominous threat to free speech in the country.

Issue Aug 20-26 2025: August 2025 has become one of the most turbulent and defining months in recent Brazilian history, marked by political instability, economic uncertainty, and deepening polarization.

Issue Aug 20-26 2025: Social democracy could potentially prove beneficial in Chile, but the path towards it is not easy.

Issue Aug 20-26 2025: Bolivia’s general election on August 17 marked a turning point in the nation’s political trajectory, ending nearly two decades of dominance by the Movimiento al Socialismo. With a second round scheduled for October 19 between two right-wing contenders, the vote represents more than a change of government.

Issue Aug 20-26 2025: The left has won, lost, and won again in the polls of Brazil. Regardless of this fact, the social and political cost of the far-right’s victory in the midterms remains significant.

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.