According to Dora María Téllez, he wants to institutionalize a “family” succession. 

The former president of Uruguay, José Mujica (2010-2015) said that the president of Cuba, Raúl Castro, who is 84 years old, “has already made the decision” to leave the presidency of the Caribbean country due to his age.

The political party FCN-Nación breaks its promise and accepts eight turncoats.

Social meetings and business meetings among the spokespersons of the guerillas of the left and the leaders of the right open the door to the future political participation of the FARC.

Deputies will meet the Minister of Finance to address criticisms regarding the country’s economic policy. The government hopes to allocate tasks and give the impression of unity, hence weakening possibilities that Dilma will be impeached.

Dynamics at the Asamblea Nacional (AN) have taken a turn for the worse, only one month following the beginning of the 2016-2020 term. 

From the beginning of his term, Francisco Flores craftily did things his own way, dismissing the consensus and eluding any accountability. This all ended when, two years ago, he admitted that he had received millions from Taiwan. Obsessive about state minimization, implacable and calculating, his government largely pandered to U.S. interests. It crumbled when his

Keiko Fujimori leads in the polls, in spite of (or because of?) the “legacy” of her father Alberto, followed by Julio Guzmán, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, and two former presidents further down in the polls. 

The crisis was not caused by the drop in oil prices, but it certainly deepened it.

Macri is playing by the old playbook as the Peronistas seem leaderless.