So says Mario Vargas Llosa. 

President Dilma Rousseff tried to block investigations of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s finances by making him a part of her Cabinet (and giving him immunity), but the move was blocked by a judge.  Both struggle to survive politically.  

Leading presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori is facing growing opposition, a sign that her efforts to distance her party from her father’s government more than 16 years ago hasn’t worked out as planned. 

Rejection of the government has grown considerably among popular sectors, where the effects of the economic crisis wreak havoc and government speech clashes with everyday reality.

The director of Correo del Caroní was thrown in jail for four years as El Carabobeno had to close down because it couldn’t get newsprint. In Latin American Herald Tribune of Caracas Carlos Camacho spoke with Luis Salamanca, a political consultant in Caracas, who argued that “these are Maduro’s contributions to the destruction of democratic

The Political Commission of the Farabundo Martí for National Liberation Front (FMLN), owing to new evidence of ties of the ARENA Party to gangs and disseminated through several media, expressed its strongest condemnation of what it labelled a “dirty practice in complicity with the criminals” on the part of senior officials from said political party. 

Secularists criticize Evangelicals, the latter criticize Catholics, and society as a whole grows more secular. This storm stirs up family values, among others.

In the inauguration speech of Mexico’s 79th  Banking Convention, President Enrique Peña Nieto stated that the financial reform favors lower interest rates and more credit; in addition to positioning Mexico as an attractive economy for investment amidst the international economic volatility.

President Nicolás Maduro announced that his followers will receive instructions for countering the opposition’s efforts to remove him from the presidential palace this year. 

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, “tough, experienced, knowledgeable” has a shot at becoming the next President of Peru, ahead of everyone except Keiko Fujimori, the front runner.