The full Congress censured the President of Council of Ministers, Ana Jara, whom they charged with spying on politicians, businessmen, military, police and journalists with Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia (DINI) resources. 

The precarious position of the president of Venezuela has led to increased repression of the opposition and a mobilization of the Venezuelan people against supposed foreign interference. 

In the first half of March 2015 President Dilma Rousseff faced a revolt in Congress over austerity legislation, an ongoing corruption scandal at the state-run oil company Petrobras, and truly massive protest marches in cities throughout the country.  In fact, pundits now talk of a breakdown of the politics of “class conciliation” that have underwritten

The leader of Chile’s main right-wing party, the UDI, resigned amid a campaign finance scandal, and the center right RN said it will keep its distance for now since “it is too early” to reactivate the coalition. As a result there are calls for stricter laws dealing with corruption and measures to revive the legitimacy

Cabinet Chief Aníbal Fernández likened the electoral deal between the UCR and PRO party with the 1999 alliance led by ex-president Fernando De La Rúa that ended in the 2001 crisis. He said this coalition belongs to the “dreadful right.” 

A year before Peru’s next presidential election the leader of the country’s biggest opposition party has a double-digit lead over her next potential rival. 

Elections are approaching and there is still a paramilitary threat to the political process on the local level, where threats of violence or outright “purchase of votes” affect races ranging from mayors to members of Congress. 

Brazilian leftists are frustrated with President Rousseff’s orthodox turn on the economy; the anti-corruption law marks its first birthday without being used; and Lula looks to improve the PT’s image. 

A “silent march” took place a month after the mysterious death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman that his ex-wife insisted was to honor his memory, but critics say was a demonstration against President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s government.   The ruling Frente para la Victoria passed a law dissolving the Intelligence Secretariat (SI) and creating the

Daniel Ortega’s government is destroying the achievements made since 1990 critics claim.  “We have returned to strong authoritarianism,” with the surrender of the army to the president and the lack of guarantees for free elections, an analyst says.