–Researched and written by Jamie Shenk During his first year in power, Bogotá’s mayor has made tackling the capital city’s high crime rate a top priority of his second tenure in office.

—Researched and written by Cassie Tickell Painter As the 2017 Chilean presidential elections approach, the race is showing trends similar to global phenomena elsewhere of anti-establishment voices and anti-immigration rhetoric.

“Never say again that there’s no one in charge because it isn’t true,” chided Isabel Allende, deputy of Chile’s Osvaldo Andrade collective from the patio of the country’s presidential palace, La Moneda.

The new president of Peru’s Council of Ministers, Fernando Zavala, plans to oversee a more technically-oriented, less political cabinet. Among his goals is healing the deep divisions that continue to polarize his country.

Over the years, issues of urban mobility (for instance traffic congestion, public transit) rose to the front of Mexican efforts to modernize national transportation.

Yet another scandal arose for President Mauricio Macri as the wheel of Argentinian politics screeched onward.

Although many can agree that the political climate is less than ideal in Brazil, changes have proven to be exceedingly more difficult to implement than many had originally thought.

Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto, said that the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) does not tolerate corruption.

A commonly heard argument is that the government should have retreated on its promises, and that its failure to do so led to defeat in the Argentinian elections.

Geddel Vieira Lima, the chief Minister of the Secretary of Governance of Brazil and the person most responsible for articulating Michael Temer’s political vision, resigned after being implicated in a scandal involving his influence in a real-estate deal.