Argentine election law requires all parties and coalitions to select their federal candidates in simultaneous open primaries that are compulsory for all voters under the age of 69, known as the PASO.  On August 9, 2015 parties will select their candidates for president and both houses of congress.  Since public opinion polling is considered suspect

A key “ally” considers impeaching President Dilma Rousseff, though he himself has been accused of bribery.  The Speaker of the Lower House awaits “legal analysis,” as he pulls out of the ruling coalition. 

Reform of abortion laws divides the ruling coalition, while the “presidentibles” understand the dynamic in the last five presidential elections: the candidate who is elected is the same that led the main polls in April the year before the election.

Peru’s opposition wins the presidency of Congress in a new blow to President Ollanta Humala. 

How Latin America’s “top Libertarian party” plans to win. 

Venezuela’s opposition coalition, grouped together in the Mesa de la Unidad Democrática, or MUD, reached an agreement to participate in the parliamentary elections under a unified ballot. 

Candidates for governors’ and mayors’ offices in Colombia are a motley and crooked bunch. 

Many presidents of various political persuasions find themselves under considerable political pressure. 

President Rafael Correa faced upper-class pushback over proposed legislation to increase taxes on inheritances and capital gains. 

The fact that Mauricio Macri is the head of the opposition is the clearest expression of Argentina’s political polarization.  The country is at a crossroads between two economic models.