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.

Issue Aug 01-12 2025: This month, Bogotá celebrated its 13th Gabo Festival. This festival commemorates the anniversary of Gabriel García Márquez’s novel The Autumn of the Patriarch. The festival acts as a moment to reflect on the authoritarianism that continues to haunt Latin America, resonating with themes surrounding censorship and surveillance.

Issue Aug 01-12 2025: The path to absolute power initiated in Venezuela by Hugo Chávez, and consolidated by Nicolás Maduro, is now being followed by Nayib Bukele with his own tools, a great deal of populism, and social media as an unstoppable force.

Issue Jul 01-31 2025: On July 28th, justice prevailed when it was proved that not even the president was above the law. President Álvaro Uribe became the first former president of Colombia to be criminally convicted, sentenced to a 12-year sentence of house arrest.

Issue Jul 01-31 2025: The government of Dina Boluarte is displaying signs of deep unpopularity amidst a period of political crisis and rising crime. This situation has placed Boluarte’s administration at a 4% public approval rating, the lowest recorded since the country’s return to democracy.

Issue Jul 01-31 2025: The approaching general elections in Bolivia will be consequential in deciding the country’s presidential cabinet and its lawmakers. These elections, which are being conducted amidst Bolivia’s worst economic crisis in four decades, will decide if the ruling party will lose its power after nearly two decades.