Issue Jan 24-30 2024: Five years after their visit to Nicaragua in 2018 as part of an OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, human rights lawyers Paulo Abrao and Antonia Urrejola commented on the country’s increasing despotism under the Ortega regime.

Issue Jan 24-30 2024: After intense negotiations, the Chilean congress has decided to move forward with pension reform, marking a welcome victory for the Boric administration, particularly after the rejection of its tax reform program in March 2023.

Issue Jan 24-30 2024: Thousands of coca farmers and members of other rural organizations demanded that the Constitutional Court judges who ruled that Morales is not allowed to run for presidency in 2025 resign and call for judicial elections.

Issue Jan 17-23 2024: Almost 20% of legislative initiatives revised by congress during the last year were purely declarative projects that sought to bring attention to “public need” or “national interest,” such as the creation of ministries and official holidays.

Issue Jan 17-23 2024: After enduring a political setback this past summer, when the Mexican Supreme Court nullified several legal reforms backed by his party, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has retaken the offensive:

Issue Jan 17-23 2024: Eight soldiers involved in the Ayotzinapa case were freed after the Attorney General did not challenge the court ruling for preventive detention.

Issue Jan 17-23 2024: The Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD) has accused the Dominican government of authoritarian, antidemocratic, and dictatorial tendencies, in response to the passage of the controversial Law 1-24, which establishes the National Intelligence Directorate (DNI).

Issue Jan 17-23 2024: María Corina Machado, winner of the Venezuelan opposition primary, met with her supporters in Altamira on the 23rd of January.

Issue Jan 17-23 2024: For more than a year, the national government of Colombia has been in opposition to the EPS (Entidades Promotoras de Salud, or public health insurance providers), which has filled both healthcare system actors and patients with uncertainty.

–Written by Will Egan—Issue Jan 10-16 2024: Despite various attempts over the past five months to derail his inauguration, including a last-minute effort to prevent the transfer of power, Bernardo Arévalo was sworn in as the new Guatemalan president early Monday morning, January 15th. While his confirmation allowed many Guatemalans, fearful of the country’s gradual