Rejection of the government has grown considerably among popular sectors, where the effects of the economic crisis wreak havoc and government speech clashes with everyday reality.

The director of Correo del Caroní was thrown in jail for four years as El Carabobeno had to close down because it couldn’t get newsprint. In Latin American Herald Tribune of Caracas Carlos Camacho spoke with Luis Salamanca, a political consultant in Caracas, who argued that “these are Maduro’s contributions to the destruction of democratic

The Political Commission of the Farabundo Martí for National Liberation Front (FMLN), owing to new evidence of ties of the ARENA Party to gangs and disseminated through several media, expressed its strongest condemnation of what it labelled a “dirty practice in complicity with the criminals” on the part of senior officials from said political party. 

Secularists criticize Evangelicals, the latter criticize Catholics, and society as a whole grows more secular. This storm stirs up family values, among others.

In the inauguration speech of Mexico’s 79th  Banking Convention, President Enrique Peña Nieto stated that the financial reform favors lower interest rates and more credit; in addition to positioning Mexico as an attractive economy for investment amidst the international economic volatility.

President Nicolás Maduro announced that his followers will receive instructions for countering the opposition’s efforts to remove him from the presidential palace this year. 

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, “tough, experienced, knowledgeable” has a shot at becoming the next President of Peru, ahead of everyone except Keiko Fujimori, the front runner. 

Amid rival protests in pro and con of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and the investigation into his affairs on possible corruption charges, Brazilians continue to endure their nation’s political disfunction.  President Dilma Rousseff struggles to find a path for herself, her mentor Lula, and their PT party through and out of the

A group of students from the University of El Salvador demonstrated against the visit of the deputies on February 25. Legislators convened in the university campus to celebrate its 175th anniversary.

She was interviewed by one of the country’s most prominent investigative journalists.