As Ecuador prepares for its upcoming 2017 elections, preliminary data indicates a six-point difference amongst registered men and women. There are 3,793 candidates set to run in the election. Of them, 53.4% are men and 46.6% are women.

Many civilians and government officials bemoan the unproductive congressional session that recently concluded in Panama.

As the dust settles around the peace agreement achieved by the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Colombia looks ahead to the transition period estimated to last eight years.

People are increasingly more concerned with the state of Brazil and are calling for some dramatic changes.

The opposition movement in Daniel Ortega’s Nicaragua aims to rework the country’s electoral system and put an end to what opposition leader Dora María Tellez calls “massive fraud.”

As the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) continues to hold discussions with government spokespeople, the Venezuelan people must put pressure on the government through demonstrations and protests, according to the president of the Movement Toward Socialism Party (MAS), Segundo Meléndez.

Argentine Federal Judge Claudio Bonadio confirmed that with the court’s current information, there is not sufficient evidence to issue former president Cristina Kirchner a restraining order of freedom.

The PRI, the PAN, and the PRD have formed a coalition, blocking the National Regeneration Movement (Morena Party) from the 64th legislature of the Congress of the state of Veracruz.

FMLN (Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front) said that ARENA (Nationalist Republican Alliance) has finally ended its “systematic blockade” of State funds. 

Ana Penchaszadeh, a political scientist who studies migration and human rights, says that Senator Miguel Pichetto is scapegoating immigrants for his political advantage.