Deputies will meet the Minister of Finance to address criticisms regarding the country’s economic policy. The government hopes to allocate tasks and give the impression of unity, hence weakening possibilities that Dilma will be impeached.

Dynamics at the Asamblea Nacional (AN) have taken a turn for the worse, only one month following the beginning of the 2016-2020 term. 

From the beginning of his term, Francisco Flores craftily did things his own way, dismissing the consensus and eluding any accountability. This all ended when, two years ago, he admitted that he had received millions from Taiwan. Obsessive about state minimization, implacable and calculating, his government largely pandered to U.S. interests. It crumbled when his

Keiko Fujimori leads in the polls, in spite of (or because of?) the “legacy” of her father Alberto, followed by Julio Guzmán, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, and two former presidents further down in the polls. 

The crisis was not caused by the drop in oil prices, but it certainly deepened it.

Macri is playing by the old playbook as the Peronistas seem leaderless. 

Constitutional limits and the end of commodities boom may doom the president’s re-election bid. 

Many lament that the process has been marred by corruption and drug trafficking. 

When Evo Morales won the presidency in October 2005, some observers doubted he would last the year. But after a decade in power, with the possibility of extending his mandate for years, Morales has overseen a transformation of Bolivian society. 

Many Nicaraguans don’t identify with any party, and many others seem apathetic about politics, but the Sandinistas are still dominant.