Issue Jan 01-10 2023: With the recent arrest of Luis Fernando Camacho, here is a review of the Bolivian opposition leader’s role in the overthrow of former President Evo Morales in 2019.
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Issue Jan 01-10 2023: The level of political capital and strengthening of the sitting government in Ecuador depends on how three current situations play out: the results of the ruling party’s candidates in the regional elections, the victory of the Yes vote in the referendum, and in the medium term, the period following the referendum
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Issue Jan 01-10 2023: President Gustavo Petro of Colombia continues to be popular, and his government has made favorable changes for the country.
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Issue Jan 01-10 2023: If elections were held “today,” respondents indicated preference for the Frente de Todos political party over Juntos por el Cambio.
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Issue Jan 01-10 2023: Under Honduras’ President Xiomara Castro’s “war against extortion,” arrests, reports of arbitrary arrests, due process violations, and tortures have surged in the country.
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Issue Jan 01-10 2023: The platform D Frente, made up of activists, intellectuals, and opposition groups, sent a message denouncing the Cuban government of impoverishing the island.
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–Researched and Written by Juliana Rivas Torrente— Issue Dec 01-31 2022: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina’s current vice-president, was sentenced by the Federal Oral Tribunal 2, on the 6th of December of 2022, to six years in jail and perpetual disqualification from holding any public charges. Fernández de Kirchner’s reaction to the news was harsh.
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–Researched and Written by Alexander Orozco— Issue Dec 01-31 2022: Former Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina and former Vice President Roxanna Baldetti are finally seeing the consequences of their schemes for trying to defraud the government for more than three years. An entire network of customs officers and government officials were involved in the schemes.
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Issue Dec 01-31 2022: The “judicialization of politics” that once took down governments under Brazil’s Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), sending Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to prison and toppling Dilma Rousseff, could now work in the PT’s favor.
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