In his call for Mexico to avoid authoritarianism, President Enrique Peña Nieto stressed the importance of openness in government and advocated completing constitutional reform. 

Mónica López and 50 Buenos Aires politicos abandoned the dissident Peronista ranks to join the Frente para la Victoria. 

The former mayor and current deputy of the Legislative Assembly for the rightwing Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA), Norman Quijano, spoke in a radio interview of differences he had with some positions taken by other party leaders. 

The anti-corruption former Attorney General, Ronald Gamarra, says that the leader of Fuerza Popular, Keiko Fujimori, “is looking to take advantage of younger voters who did not live through the earlier Fujimori regime,” that of Keiko’s father. 

The confusing political crisis, driven in part by a slumping economy and the Petrobras corruption scandal, has deeper roots in fundamental questions about how society and the economy should function. 

It looks like the presidential candidates will not face off on TV, or rather, they will do so without the frontrunner, FpV candidate Daniel Scioli. 

Venezuelan opposition focuses on the electoral benefit from the case, but the Maduro government also has a plan. 

The former Senator and head of the Socialist party, Camilo Escalona, stated that “in the elections of 2017 there will be a strong propensity to populism,” and if Chileans don’t “act responsibly,” there will be significant threats to Chilean democracy. 

Charges of a “judicial coup d’état” in Tucumán. 

Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, who is facing threats of impeachment and calls to resign from opposition politicians, says that attempting to use a crisis to take power is just a “modern version of a coup.”  And other commentators point to the “unconstitutional” nature of impeachment under the current circumstances, while the search for policy alternatives