Issue Jan 21-27 2026: Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz has promised development and investment in Potosí, but only if the city can guarantee that road blockades will cease. Meanwhile, the powerful Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) union has warned that it will once again take to the streets if the initiative is approved by the country’s Legislative

Issue Jan 21-27 2026: It is impossible to disentangle the stated purpose of Argentinian President Javier Milei’s recent visit to Mar del Plata, the country’s premiere summer destination, from the visit’s electoral dimension, even though nearly two years remain before the next elections in the country are scheduled to be held.

Issue Jan 21-27 2026: After reports of slave labor reached a record high in 2025, the Ministério do Trabalho e Emprego (MTE) was preparing for the National Day Against Slave Labor, on January 28, amidst a strike by labor inspectors that had suspended rescue operations since the beginning of December 2025,  and continues with no

Issue Jan 21-27 2026: The first presidential debate of Colombia’s Gran Consulta por Colombia offered more insight into the country’s electoral constraints than into competing political projects.

Issue Jan 21-27 2026: Six weeks after the crushing defeat in the second round of the presidential election on December 14, 2025, at the hands of the far-right candidate José Antonio Kast (who won by a 16-percentage-point margin), the Chilean left has broken the fragile pragmatic unity it maintained around Gabriel Boric’s government and is

Issue Jan 14-20 2026: Laura Fernández, presidential candidate for the reigning Pueblo Soberano in Costa Rica, is supported by 40% of decided voters in the country for the upcoming elections in February of 2026.

Issue Jan 14-20 2026: The new president of the Revolución Ciudadana party (RC), Gabriela Rivadeneira, has not ruled out that organization’s ex-leader Luisa González as a potential candidate for the Manabí Prefecture for the 2027 local elections.

Issue Jan 14-20 2026: Argentinian politicians were submitted to a nationwide public opinion poll at the end of 2025 and the results were dismal.

Issue Jan 14-20 2026: This year will be dominated by the change of government and will be marked by fiscal fragility, geopolitical realignment, and relentless social pressure. If the Colombian economy could be personified, in 2026 it would look like an exhausted triathlete.

Issue Jan 14-20 2026: Chile’s President-elect José Antonio Kast has sparked strong controversy with the announcement of his incoming cabinet, appointing two former lawyers of dictator Augusto Pinochet to senior government roles.