Civic groups launched the first offensive against 11 deputies who are still working for Guatecompras as state contractors. 

President Dilma Rousseff’s former ally and chief nemesis, Eduardo Cunha (the Speaker of Brazil’s Lower House), who has been flirting with instigating impeachment proceedings against the president, has run into problems of his own.  Under investigation for corruption in connection to the Petrobras scandal, it turns out that the speaker and his family have undisclosed

In his call for Mexico to avoid authoritarianism, President Enrique Peña Nieto stressed the importance of openness in government and advocated completing constitutional reform. 

Mónica López and 50 Buenos Aires politicos abandoned the dissident Peronista ranks to join the Frente para la Victoria. 

The former mayor and current deputy of the Legislative Assembly for the rightwing Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA), Norman Quijano, spoke in a radio interview of differences he had with some positions taken by other party leaders. 

The anti-corruption former Attorney General, Ronald Gamarra, says that the leader of Fuerza Popular, Keiko Fujimori, “is looking to take advantage of younger voters who did not live through the earlier Fujimori regime,” that of Keiko’s father. 

The confusing political crisis, driven in part by a slumping economy and the Petrobras corruption scandal, has deeper roots in fundamental questions about how society and the economy should function. 

It looks like the presidential candidates will not face off on TV, or rather, they will do so without the frontrunner, FpV candidate Daniel Scioli. 

Venezuelan opposition focuses on the electoral benefit from the case, but the Maduro government also has a plan. 

The former Senator and head of the Socialist party, Camilo Escalona, stated that “in the elections of 2017 there will be a strong propensity to populism,” and if Chileans don’t “act responsibly,” there will be significant threats to Chilean democracy.