Many sectors of the left supported the reelection of President Manuel Santos because he offered peace, but today they note that his social politics contradict that yearning.  This has contributed to national uneasiness and a national strike.

The Latin American Left is feeling ill, and with good reason. The recent corruption scandal in Brazil, which possibly has Lula at the doors of prison, and Dilma facing possible impeachment, makes us wonder:  where did we lose our way? 

Brazil’s largest party quit the coalition with the ruling PT, isolating Rousseff. 

So says Mario Vargas Llosa. 

President Dilma Rousseff tried to block investigations of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s finances by making him a part of her Cabinet (and giving him immunity), but the move was blocked by a judge.  Both struggle to survive politically.  

Leading presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori is facing growing opposition, a sign that her efforts to distance her party from her father’s government more than 16 years ago hasn’t worked out as planned. 

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.