Issue Mar 13-19 2024: Carlos Martínez was only a child of 13 years when his father took him to attend celebration of the historic peace accords between the FMLN and the Salvadoran government.

Issue Mar 13-19 2024: Three speakers at the second forum for debating Mexico’s 2024 electoral platforms agreed that the social programs implemented by the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador have benefited Mexicans and must be maintained.

Issue Mar 13-19 2024: Yanina Welp, co-founder of the Network of Female Political Scientists and senior researcher at the Albert Hirschman Center on Democracy in Geneva, Switzerland, shared insights on populism in Latin America.

Issue Mar 06-12 2024: –Researched and written by Elena Olvera— As Mexico gears up for its upcoming presidential election, the likelihood increases that a female president will take office for the first time in the nation’s history. However, feminists and women’s rights activists around the country are wondering what a female president would mean for

Issue Mar 06-12 2024: Colombian President Gustavo Petro has dismissed out of hand the possibility of abandoning his plan for health care reform, despite the fact that it shows no signs of being able to make it through Congress.

Issue Mar 06-12 2024: In Argentina, the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INDEC) indicated that inflation stood at 13.2%, a slowdown compared to the previous rate; the cumulative rate for 2023 stands at 276.2%.

Issue Mar 06-12 2024: President Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua gave the Ministry of the Interior (MINT) control of the production and organization of public activities and artistic performances.

Issue Mar 06-12 2024: In a vote marked by irregularities, the right-wing majority Peruvian Congress removed and disqualified two magistrates from the National Board of Justice (JNJ) for ten years.

Issue Mar 06-12 2024: Amid accusations of sabotaging Venezuelan opposition candidate María Corina Machado’s campaign, Manuel Rosales, the governor of Zulia, and his party, Un Nuevo Tiempo (A New Era), reaffirmed their support for Machado.

Issue Mar 06-12 2024: Rather than yet just another problem to be solved, Cuba’s current political crisis is the clearest indication in the last ten years of the fundamental non-viability of its current model of government.