The security policy of the government does not take into account the particularities of each region and does not anticipate an eventual peace agreement.

President Evo Morales and his MAS party suffered an electoral setback in regional elections for governors and mayors after a decade of political hegemony. 

The Ecuadorian government has decided to confront the social organizations opposed to its political project by harassing their leaders and limiting their activities. 

While ARENA has recovered its strength in the Legislative Assembly, the FMLN seems to know where to look for the votes it needs to support the government of President Sánchez Cerén before the end of the current legislative session. 

The full Congress censured the President of Council of Ministers, Ana Jara, whom they charged with spying on politicians, businessmen, military, police and journalists with Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia (DINI) resources. 

The precarious position of the president of Venezuela has led to increased repression of the opposition and a mobilization of the Venezuelan people against supposed foreign interference. 

In the first half of March 2015 President Dilma Rousseff faced a revolt in Congress over austerity legislation, an ongoing corruption scandal at the state-run oil company Petrobras, and truly massive protest marches in cities throughout the country.  In fact, pundits now talk of a breakdown of the politics of “class conciliation” that have underwritten

The leader of Chile’s main right-wing party, the UDI, resigned amid a campaign finance scandal, and the center right RN said it will keep its distance for now since “it is too early” to reactivate the coalition. As a result there are calls for stricter laws dealing with corruption and measures to revive the legitimacy

Cabinet Chief Aníbal Fernández likened the electoral deal between the UCR and PRO party with the 1999 alliance led by ex-president Fernando De La Rúa that ended in the 2001 crisis. He said this coalition belongs to the “dreadful right.” 

A year before Peru’s next presidential election the leader of the country’s biggest opposition party has a double-digit lead over her next potential rival.