The Latin American right faces a critical situation.  With just two governments securely in their column, and no real chance of winning a new country for their cause in elections this year, the debate has turned to how to address the new scenario of political and ideological dominance by the left.  

The ongoing political turmoil in Venezuela continued on a low boil, with more efforts to find a working agreement between the government of Nicolás Maduro and the country’s well-heeled protestors.  Yet there was still plenty of drama with the kidnapping and subsequent release of an opposition journalist. 

In the most dramatic hour of the Kirchner era, Senate majority leader Miguel Angel Pichetto looked at Vice-President Julio Cobos straight in the eyes and quoted the Bible.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s popularity has dipped five percentage points ahead of October’s presidential elections, revealed a new poll published on Sunday.

President Michelle Bachelet aims to move decisively on 56 measures she promised to enact within the first 100 days of her government, which have been overshadowed by the massive earthquake that recently struck off the coast. 

Leftist parties now hold sway in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, but what it means in the long run is still not clear. 

In recent years in Guatemala, conflicts and demands of different sectors of society have been exacerbated by the lack of response and consensus with Government. 

President Nicolás Maduro recently announced that his government had captured three generals accused of “plotting a coup.” 

President Michelle Bachalet has sent a bill to establish a ministry that would champion the country’s women and contribute to diminishing the gender inequality that runs deep and wide across Chilean society. 

Witness the newly elected President Salvador Sánchez Cerén of the FMLN.