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.

The President faces disaster given economic uncertainty, a stormy peace process, the threat of El Niño, the acrimonious political climate and low popularity.

PRD leader Agustín Basave Benítez expressed confidence in a win for the party’s candidate, despite PRI and its dinosaurs.

With 34 days to go before the general elections, the electoral preferences are staying the course.  The latest national poll reveals that the “new” candidates are those that continue to harvest major sympathies from the population, among them Julio Guzmán, Alfredo Barnechea, and Verónika Mendoza. 

The Venezuelan opposition will announce in the next few days the constitutional procedure with which they hope to put an end to the mandate of Nicolás Maduro, the successor to the deceased Hugo Chávez, which has the country entangled in a grave economic crisis.