Neither of the two main candidates for president, Daniel Scioli and Mauricio Macri, have said much about the “vulture funds” during their campaigns, but both have been working behind the scenes. 

After months of pressure, increasingly intense investigation, and popular protests, President Pérez Molina stepped down on September 3, 2015, months short of the end of his term.  While corruption has long been considered a permanent given in Guatemalan politics, hard-wired into its institutions and impossible to completely eradicate, recent events have overturned the conventional wisdom. 

Agustín Basave “accepts the challenge of leading the PRD,” Mexico’s long-standing leftist party.

This is a tough and confusing moment for left-of-center voters. 

Allies, former allies, and opposition parties in Brazil point to a growing “leadership vacuum as the economy sinks;” Rousseff struggles with tanking approval ratings, more protests, and lingering worries about corruption investigations; both the president and her mentor, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, have tried to rally support with little success, though her

In recent weeks a large collection of unconnected groups, including indigenous communities, medical doctors and nursing associations, teachers’ unions, senior citizen organizations, and business owners, have organized large protest marches all over Ecuador.  Shouting slogans and waving banners, they have blocked roads and clashed with police, and their main target is President Correa.  Though an

The president’s private periodical keeps his people on the same page. 

Argentine election law requires all parties and coalitions to select their federal candidates in simultaneous open primaries that are compulsory for all voters under the age of 69, known as the PASO.  On August 9, 2015 parties will select their candidates for president and both houses of congress.  Since public opinion polling is considered suspect

A key “ally” considers impeaching President Dilma Rousseff, though he himself has been accused of bribery.  The Speaker of the Lower House awaits “legal analysis,” as he pulls out of the ruling coalition. 

Reform of abortion laws divides the ruling coalition, while the “presidentibles” understand the dynamic in the last five presidential elections: the candidate who is elected is the same that led the main polls in April the year before the election.