Although most of Latin America has been turning to the right, Mexico is a potential exception that soon could end the dream of politicians in the United States.

At the end of April, the Tribunal Constitucional (TC) of Chile considered a petition from opposition legislators to Michelle Bachelet’s administration to object to the legality of an amendment that would recognize unions as the only method of collective bargaining.

After a lot of back and forth between the Senate’s impeachment commission and the Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF), Brazil’s ousted president, Dilma Rousseff will give her testimony on July 6.

The Argentine Court of Appeals has ruled that there is no evidence to suggest that the lawyer Natalio Alberto Nisman was murdered and has sent the case back to the original judge.

The political analyst and psychoanalyst, Jorge Alemán, says that Podemos learned a thing or two from the left-wing movements in Latin America.

Thousands of people and activists from several groups such as Frente Brasil Popular, União Nacional dos Estudantes (UNE), Movimentos dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) e Movimentos dos Trabalhadores Sem Teto (MTST) staged a protest on Avenida Paulista in São Paulo against the interim administration of Michel Temer on June 10th.

Ex-presidential candidate Verónica Mendoza announced that no members of the Frente Amplio coalition would be placed in the next presidential cabinet.

Writer Elena Poniatowska appears preoccupied with the future of Mexico. “It is always better to vote,” said the author of La Noche de Tlatelolco during her visit to the Universidad Autónoma at Nueva León; “Either we do it or Mexico will go to hell.”

The full Chamber of Representatives must ratify the decision which will require at least 257 votes.

In the last three decades, there have been 52 changes of administrations in local governments; only five states have been led by the PRI over a period of 80 years.