The contest between Jimmy Morales and Sandra Torres will now focus the nation’s attention. 

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa ordered the dissolution of a freedom of expression organization. 

Political change in Guatemala is having an influence on Central America. 

Mexicans feel a powerful malaise about their society and disenchantment with their political machinery. Though such feelings are widespread and touch all parties, much of this discontent has fallen heavily on President Enrique Peña Nieto. He continues to push back against his critics, though with limited success.

Many on the left are disenchanted with the PT government, but still don’t think impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff is the answer, even though they argue that her government “does not represent us.” 

Block 192, in the Andoas area of Loreto bordering with Ecuador, produces oil that is carried in the North Peru Pipeline to the coastal port of Bayovar, and in recent weeks Peruvian politicians have gone back and forth on it. 

Neither of the two main candidates for president, Daniel Scioli and Mauricio Macri, have said much about the “vulture funds” during their campaigns, but both have been working behind the scenes. 

After months of pressure, increasingly intense investigation, and popular protests, President Pérez Molina stepped down on September 3, 2015, months short of the end of his term.  While corruption has long been considered a permanent given in Guatemalan politics, hard-wired into its institutions and impossible to completely eradicate, recent events have overturned the conventional wisdom. 

Agustín Basave “accepts the challenge of leading the PRD,” Mexico’s long-standing leftist party.

This is a tough and confusing moment for left-of-center voters.