The National Assembly is a good place to study the country’s politicians. Many don’t speak up and most follow their leaders like sheep. 

A private jet carrying candidate Eduardo Campos, who was running third in polls for Brazil’s presidential election in October, crashed in the city of Santos, killing him and throwing the country’s election into confusion. 

The Lower House voted to replace the Pinochet-era electoral system. 

Social and political organizations protested against the government of President Horacio Cartes with a massive march through the downtown of Asunción. 

The government expects to raise $100 million dollars a year with measures affecting the tax code. 

Brazil’s inflation imperils President Rousseff’s reelection bid; São Paulo will be the main battleground in the election, while rejection of the president grows in large urban centers; and the water crisis could be a wild card.

The Conservative Party presented a bill to eliminate the new system of presidential reelection, while Senators Álvaro Uribe and Ivan Cepeda made their personal animosity clear enough, even for anyone who was not paying attention. 

Politicos and analysts spoke of the need for unity on the left, and critics kept up the ongoing struggle against energy reform. 

In his fourth year of the presidency, Humala has one last chance to impress Peruvians.  

The Table of Democratic Unity (MUD) confessed that the alliance must be better connected todifferent sectors of the country.