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.

Issue Apr 26-May 09 2023: Chile’s recent Republican victory marks a new movement of the country’s political pendulum.

Issue Apr 26-May 09 2023: Mexico is going through a moment of uncertainty at the gates of the 2024 elections.

Issue Apr 26-May 09 2023: Colombian President Gustavo Petro has stated that seven ministers will be replaced in the cabinet of eighteen, following what he called a failed political coalition, in which El Partido Conservador, El Liberal, and La U refused to approve a bill that would reform health care.