Issue May 17-23 2023: After months of intense negotiations, Salvadoran civil society groups have reached an agreement with the four opposition parties within the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador (Arena, FMLN, Vamos, and Nuestro Tiempo) to support a single 2024 presidential candidate together.

Issue May 17-23 2023: The results of the May 14th election demonstrate that the management and success of local governments has little involvement in the national government.

Issue May 17-23 2023: An analysis of the recent elections of the constitutional council of Chile showed that the insurgent Partido Republicano gained strength and prevailed in most regionalities throughout the country.

Issue May 17-23 2023: The government of Luis Arce has become highly criticized after ministers were accused of corruption.

Issue May 10-16 2023: When an election becomes a referendum, defining itself in relation to a single issue, it is often those who define the issue that come out as the winners.

Issue May 10-16 2023: Peru is asking itself the same question it asked in 2016: How do they deal with an impractical Congress in which nothing progresses?

Issue May 10-16 2023: The 2023 elections in Argentina have cast a big political question over the Frente De Todos coalition, as a sector of Kirchnerism has again given impulse to the mobilization of May 25, when it will be 20 years since the inauguration of Néstor Kirchner and 50 years since that Héctor Cámpora.

*Note: On May 17, 2023, Lasso dissolved Congress, which will be covered extensively in the next issue of the Latin American News Digest. Issue May 10-16 2023: President Guillermo Lasso of Ecuador is in serious trouble. Lasso went to the assembly to defend himself against those who accuse him.

Issue May 10-16 2023: Panamanian citizens need to think about themselves politically within the context of their moral dimension.

Issue Apr 26-May 09 2023: Brazil’s legal net is closing in around Bolsonaro, who was awakened May 3rd by the sound of federal police banging on the door of his home in Brasilia.