“Crisis” has been a popular word to describe the situation in Brazil for the better part of a year now. While it is true that Brazil if facing a myriad of problems just five weeks before the start of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian crisis can be fundamentally considered to be

Tempers ran high as members of the Advisory Board met to discuss plans for a new minimum wage in El Salvador.

The first round of President Michelle Bachelet’s consultation on the Chilean constitution has finished, attracting criticism from both within and without the ruling coalition.

Taking into consideration the varying definitions of “political prisoner” and the work of different agencies, human rights organizations have attempted to paint a picture of the situation for political prisoners throughout the continent.

Interviews with Edgardo Depetri, representative of Frente Para la Victoria (FpV), and Leonardo Grosso of Movimiento Evita explain shifts within the parliamentary block. Depetri asserts that “The members of the ‘Evita Movement’ are leaving, because they are part of the Partido Justicialista.”

Argentina continues to endure the conflicts between two clashing political narratives.

Sergio Machado claims that President Michel Temer negotiated with him in 2012 the transfer of R$1.5 million in kickbacks to finance an ally’s mayoral campaign.  And Brazil’s suspended leader of its lower house of Congress warns that if arrested he will take other politicians down with him.

Although most of Latin America has been turning to the right, Mexico is a potential exception that soon could end the dream of politicians in the United States.

At the end of April, the Tribunal Constitucional (TC) of Chile considered a petition from opposition legislators to Michelle Bachelet’s administration to object to the legality of an amendment that would recognize unions as the only method of collective bargaining.

After a lot of back and forth between the Senate’s impeachment commission and the Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF), Brazil’s ousted president, Dilma Rousseff will give her testimony on July 6.