Former President Álvaro Uribe’s rightwing Centro Democrático party hoped for an election result in 2015 “equal to that of 2014,” but they discovered that these “were very different battles.”  At the same time Horacio Serpa, the leader of the Liberal Party, injudiciously bet his famous mustache on the election. 

The tragedy of Iguala, in which the 43 student teachers (or “normalistas”) from Ayotzinapa disappeared, did more that expose the corruption and complicity of police forces and local government authorities with organized crime. 

Nicolás Maduro admits the political “emergency” and denounces the coming “coup.” 

Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva urged the ruling Workers’ Party (PT) to back fiscal austerity measures in Congress, endorsing the efforts of Finance Minister Joaquim Levy to plug a gaping deficit. 

Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani spoke out again against abortion, even in case of rape. “No exception allows humans to kill a helpless creature in the womb,” he insisted. 

In an interview, President Michelle Bachelet defended her government’s efforts, as well as its push for constitutional reform. 

It privileges the interests of entrepreneurs and producers to justify a new system of state security.  

There have been several discussions on how to do it. 

The details keep arriving from Switzerland, where the president of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies “hid a fortune.” 

Morales is now Bolivia’s longest serving president, and it looks like he has no intention of leaving anytime soon.