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

Issue Jan 10-16 2024: El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele is headed for a landslide victory, leading with 71% voter intention, according to a survey conducted by the private University Francisco Gavidia (UFG).

Issue Jan 10-16 2024: In seeming contrast to the authoritarian backsliding occurring in the rest of Latin America, the Dominican Republic is enjoying a period of robust democracy and political dynamism.

Issue Jan 10-16 2024: In Mexico, policy evaluation is helping create an improved democratic quality in state governments.

Issue Jan 10-16 2024: Gustavo Petro created a commission of 34 experts from a variety of backgrounds to develop the reforms of the justice system.

Issue Jan 01-09 2024: Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador defended the participation of the Mexican Armed Forces in the construction of public works, and denied that this represented a militarization of the country.