Witness the newly elected President Salvador Sánchez Cerén of the FMLN. 

Efren Lemus, Daniel Valencia, and Ricardo Vaquerano reported in El Faro Magazine of San Salvador on the razor thin margin in the final count of the Salvadoran presidential election in which the ruling FMLN party polled 50.11% to the ARENA party’s 49.89%.   

In Colombia Reports of Medellín Daniel E. Freeman wrote that Colombia’s congressional elections on March 9, 2014 “saw an unprecedented amount of voter fraud and vote buying, though violent pressure on voters from armed illegal groups largely abated, according to electoral observers.” 

Ricardo Mendonça noted in Folha de S. Paulo that the typical Brazilian voter in 2014 is between 25 and 34 years old, with a high school diploma and has low monthly family income. 

Tomás Brockenshire pointed out in the Buenos Aires Herald that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner opened the 132nd session of the Argentine Congress with a speech that included tentative olive branches to the political opposition, and only superficially set out the legislative agenda for the coming year. 

Hermann Bellinghausen reported in La Jornada of Mexico City that the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) unveiled its new publication, Rebeldía Zapatista, to be directed by Subcomandante Moisés. 

Luís Rosero wrote in El Telégrafo of Guayaquil that the Ecuadorian right “in its different shades” captured local power in a number of mayoral races in several large and medium sized cities.   

In Semana Magazine of Bogotá Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos addressed the issue of military interceptions of his communications, including emails.  He confirmed that his communications were intercepted, including those of his family members. He “did not hesitate” to call such actions “serious criminal activity” that were “unusual and unacceptable.” 

In Clarín of Buenos Aires Leonardo Mindez noted that “with barely concealed tensions” the peronistas have started talking about who will follow President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner at the top of the Justicialist Party.  The Peronistas of Buenos Aires province met for four hours of speeches in which “the mantra that was repeated was that

In early February, as Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro commemorated the 15th anniversary of the coming to power of the late president Hugo Chávez (1999-2013), his political opponents conducted anti-government demonstrations that turned deadly.