–Written by Simon Bannister — Issue May 31-Jun 06 2023: Colombian society reacted to a cascade of revelations surrounding a scandal which has now implicated the Petro administration in both illegal wiretapping as well as campaign finance irregularities.

Issue May 31-Jun 06 2023: Two books written from a political science and investigative journalism standpoint have recently been published examining the decade of “correísmo” in Ecuador: The Reactionary Utopia by Simón Pachano and The Ill-fated Revolution by Mónica Almeida and Ana Karina López.

Issue May 31-Jun 06 2023: A recent report indicated that public and social media opinion over President Rodrigo Chaves has been negative for the first time since his election due to various controversies.

Issue May 31-Jun 06 2023: The disqualification of several candidates has been a determining factor in the electoral process that feeds to the uncertainty, according to analysts, from those running for president, deputies, or mayors, which has created an avalanche of legal action.

Issue May 24-30 2023: Political actions across leaders have differentiated and even contradicted each other over time.

Issue May 24-30 2023: One of the biggest problems in the Guatemalan government is ‘the corruption’ by the elite, but the only ones to blame are the citizens who elected those in power and did not do their job as citizens.

Issue May 24-30 2023: During the last three years, a network designed by a marketing agency has spent 3.4 million pesos in publicity on Facebook, which has been hired primarily by PRI campaigns and governments to wage a ‘dirty war,’ spreading misinformation and unsubstantiated statements against political rivals—tricolor politicians have been praised, in contrast.

Issue May 24-30 2023: An analysis of Cristina Kirchner’s political rally at the Plaza can be divided into two parts: an inventory of the facts as they occurred, and an interpretation of those facts to gain a sense of which direction Argentina’s political winds are blowing.

Issue May 24-30 2023: Former President Evo Morales mobilized supporters for a National Summit, which may be interpreted as a call for unity within the Movimiento Al Socialismo.

Issue May 17-23 2023: The Petro administration’s labor reform initiative has elicited mixed reactions, highlighting the different values held by its critics and proponents.