Issue Oct 18-24 2023: To achieve sustainable development in Latin America and other regions, improving the quality of democracies is essential.

Issue Oct 18-24 2023: Recent tensions between judicial, legislative, and executive branches have weakened democracies around the world, according to American political scientist Tom Ginsburg.

Issue Oct 18-24 2023: In regions marked by violence and insecurity, community leaders play a pivotal role in the electoral process, but their participation is hindered by a lack of knowledge, electoral crimes, and even threats to their lives.

Issue Oct 18-24 2023: In the midst of political tensions in La Paz, Evo Morales’ continuous verbal attacks against the current government are stirring divisions within the ruling party, thus hindering potential alliances and future policymaking.

Issue Oct 18-24 2023: The Broad Front for a Free Venezuela (FAVL) declared that María Corina Machado’s victory in the Vente Venezuela primary elections was decisive, transparent, and indisputable.

Issue Oct 11-17 2023: The Comissão Parlamentar Mista de Inquérito (CPMI) has issued a final report recommending that former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) be indicted as the “intellectual author” of the events of January 8th, as he intended to be “their greatest beneficiary in the case of a successful coup.”

Issue Oct 11-17 2023: Claudia Sheinbaum, the presidential candidate under the Morena party in Mexico, recently spoke out against the Judiciary and assured that corruption in the country would only be eliminated if the Judiciary is “democratized.”

Issue Oct 11-17 2023: The Nicaraguan crisis since April 2018 has divided the Latin American left. The responses mainly pivot on two themes: allegiance to the 1980s Sandinista revolutionary ideals and denial of the protests’ grassroots origins.

Issue Oct 11-17 2023: In an era marked by a disquieting global decline in democratic values, a growing paradox surrounds democracy’s perception.

Issue Oct 11-17 2023: Uncertainties dominate the immediate prelude to the Argentine presidential elections. Traditionally, there have been doubts about who might win, but the current situation has reached an extreme level.