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.

Issue Oct 11-17 2023: Protests in December of 2022 and January of 2023 left forty-nine civilians dead after clashes with police and the military.

Issue Oct 04-10 2023: Eduardo Verástegui, a presidential aspirant in Mexico and leader of the far-right “Viva México” movement, faced backlash after posting a video where he labeled the LGBTQ+ community and environmentalists as “terrorists” and threatened to shoot them.

Issue Oct 04-10 2023: Campaigns for the primary elections are under way in Venezuela and Henrique Capriles has made his first media appearance since withdrawing his candidacy.

Issue Oct 04-10 2023: Amidst escalating internal strife and division within Bolivia’s ruling party, the Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS), critical national issues such as economic, political, and social crises, as well as water scarcity, are being overshadowed by power struggles.

Issue Oct 04-10 2023: Since the emergence of societies, political leaders have repeatedly resorted to populism. Latin America has seen several charismatic leaders such as Getulio Vargas and Joao Goulart in Brazil, Juan Domingo Perón and the Kirchners in Argentina or Lázaro Cárdenas, Adolfo López Mateos or Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico resort to