The competition is beginning to heat up as Peronista políticos jockey for position in a crowded field of would-be successors to the Kirchner dynasty, while the opposition hopes to fish in the troubled waters.
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It’s finally official: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will be the presidential candidate for the Workers’ Party (PT) in the October elections; she has also received the support of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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Costa Rica’s new President Luis Guillermo Solis pledged to run his administration as a “glass house” and tackle the corruption “eating away” at the country and the economy.
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With just weeks to go before Colombia’s presidential elections, polls show President Juan Manuel Santos maintains a comfortable lead, but a second round is almost certain. Meanwhile the continuing episode of ousted Mayor Gustavo Petro hangs over the political scene.
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The governor of Miranda state, Henrique Capriles, addressed the opposition’s view of the effectiveness of talks with the embattled government of Nicolás Maduro.
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The Ashaninka indigenous leader Ruth Buendía received the Goldman Prize and Lima’s Mayor Susana Villarán launched her re-election campaign.
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The new, leftist president of El Salvador looks to bring former dissidents in from the cold.
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Leaders of the Kirchnerista wing of Peronismo are eying post 2015 scenarios.
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The Latin American right faces a critical situation. With just two governments securely in their column, and no real chance of winning a new country for their cause in elections this year, the debate has turned to how to address the new scenario of political and ideological dominance by the left.
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The ongoing political turmoil in Venezuela continued on a low boil, with more efforts to find a working agreement between the government of Nicolás Maduro and the country’s well-heeled protestors. Yet there was still plenty of drama with the kidnapping and subsequent release of an opposition journalist.
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