Amid pressures to reconfigure the route to reform, members of the ruling leftist New Majority coalition discuss options.  At the same time, commentators say the Chilean Right’s tactics don’t scare anyone.

Political confrontations can get ugly and personal. At the moment “a battle-hardened federal judge” is looking into a hotel company owned by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her two children in Patagonia, and she is pushing back hard. 

The “Partido Social de la Unidad Social,” or simply the “Partido de la U” (and even just “La U”), “is Colombia’s largest and most successful political party in modern history and member of the ruling ‘National Unity’ coalition.” 

The next Peruvian presidential election could be historic, not necessarily because of its outcome, but because it seems to be steeped in the past, with the participation of several actors from old times, although some may be trying some new tricks. 

With a year left for the Frente Para la Victoria government of left-leaning Peronista Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the Kirchneristas must face economic slowdown and political division, though the president’s approval numbers remain healthy. 

The close race that ended with the reelection of President Dilma Rousseff, many observers on both the left and the right believe, points to continuing political struggles over many basic issues. 

Championing Chile’s regions and the military, a new party headed by General Pinochet’s grandson wants to restore “the good parts of the military regime.” 

Overflowing power becomes abusive and abusive power that is challenged often becomes violent.   These are observations that still matter in Paraguay. 

It is still a year before Argentines will take stock of the legacy of the left-leaning governments of President Néstor Kirchner and his wife and successor President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, but the handicapping is underway. 

President Juan Manuel Santos and Senator and former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez used to be allies, but then became the bitterest of opponents.  Can they “smoke the peace pipe”?