Amid rival protests in pro and con of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and the investigation into his affairs on possible corruption charges, Brazilians continue to endure their nation’s political disfunction.  President Dilma Rousseff struggles to find a path for herself, her mentor Lula, and their PT party through and out of the

A group of students from the University of El Salvador demonstrated against the visit of the deputies on February 25. Legislators convened in the university campus to celebrate its 175th anniversary.

She was interviewed by one of the country’s most prominent investigative journalists.

The President faces disaster given economic uncertainty, a stormy peace process, the threat of El Niño, the acrimonious political climate and low popularity.

PRD leader Agustín Basave Benítez expressed confidence in a win for the party’s candidate, despite PRI and its dinosaurs.

With 34 days to go before the general elections, the electoral preferences are staying the course.  The latest national poll reveals that the “new” candidates are those that continue to harvest major sympathies from the population, among them Julio Guzmán, Alfredo Barnechea, and Verónika Mendoza. 

The Venezuelan opposition will announce in the next few days the constitutional procedure with which they hope to put an end to the mandate of Nicolás Maduro, the successor to the deceased Hugo Chávez, which has the country entangled in a grave economic crisis. 

Since taking office, President Mauricio Macri has made it clear that he wants the case of Alberto Nisman’s death reopened, moving away from the theory that he committed suicide; his motives are also clearly political.   

The most prominent electoral trend throughout the last weeks has been the slow, but sure fall of the most experienced candidates.

Henry Ramos Allup, Speaker of Parliament, announced that the new National Assembly (AN) will not bow to the threats made by the Executive, countering that the latter no longer controls the assembly.