Issue Mar 25-31 2026: One week after the subnational elections, political analyst and consultant Ricardo Paz offered an optimistic perspective on the new political landscape in Bolivia—a landscape marked by fragmentation and risks of ungovernability.

Issue Mar 18-24 2026: In practical terms, ideology usually takes a backseat to the pragmatics of retaining power. When a political movement becomes transformed after assuming the governance of a country, it typically subordinates its doctrine to its more immediate goal of remaining at that country’s helm, forgetting the promises that brought it to prominence.

Issue Mar 18-24 2026: For over half a century, Colombian politics has revolved around the same axis: the guerrilla insurgency, the state, the peace process, and drug trafficking. While the players have changed, the axis remains.

Issue Mar 18-24 2026: The challenges facing Mexico, both from without and within, require at least minimum levels of unity and a coherent road map forward, but the Sheinbaum administration, directionless and weakened by internal strife, would appear to lack both.

Issue Mar 18-24 2026: Peru’s first presidential debate of the 2026 election cycle was marked more by confrontations than concrete policy proposals, raising concerns about the quality of public political discourse. While candidates addressed key issues such as security and corruption, personal attacks and weak responses dominated the event.

Issue Mar 18-24 2026: Over ten years, the committee has had leaders from both the Left and the Right.

Issue Mar 11-17 2026: The start to recently elected Chilean President José Antonio Kast’s mandate was marked by new measures involving human rights, trade unions, and the environment. Likened by critics to a political backhoe, Kast’s approach is to reconfigure policy by a form of creative destruction, demolishing in order to rebuild from the foundation

Issue Mar 11-17 2026: The human rights organization Equalia has presented a report detailing the ways that women human rights activists in Venezuela have had to transform their work methods to adapt to the increasingly restrictive environment in the country.

Issue Mar 11-17 2026: The details of Mexico’s proposed constitutional reform initiative have finally been made public, and include changes to various aspects of the country’s electoral system, ranging from a reconfiguration of the system of representation in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate, the constitutional ratification of certain affirmative action measures, new rules for

Issue Mar 11-17 2026: The results of the March 8 legislative elections in Colombia offer a glimpse of the way political power is being reconfigured in the country.