–Researched and Written by Nicolle Cama—Issue Dec 01-31 2025: Peru’s 2026 general elections are approaching amid an atmosphere of deep political uncertainty, widespread voter distrust, and extreme party fragmentation.

Issue Dec 01-31 2025: Despite the recent claim of Bolivia’s Electoral Organ that the historically large number of candidates running in the 2026 subnational elections reflects a strengthening of the country’s democracy, some experts hold that the profusion of options testifies to the Bolivian political system’s accelerated dispersal and collapse, a process that is likely

Issue Dec 01-31 2025: The president-elect of Honduras, Nasry Asfura, is scheduled to take power on January 27, 2026, in a simple, unostentatious event to be held in that country’s parliament, breaking the tradition of celebrating the inaugural ceremony at Honduras’ National Stadium.

Issue Dec 01-31 2025: Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro has raised the minimum wage in his country by 23%, the largest single raise of this kind since 1960.

Issue Dec 01-31 2025: In a document released by the UCR’s Foro Encuentro Reformista and signed by over 1,800 notable figures in the areas of science, culture, politics, and environmental conservation, Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, is taken to task for his 2026 budget and environmental policy. The document also alleges that Milei has built majorities

Issue Dec 01-31 2025: In 2025, Mexico’s Morena Party reached its target goal of gaining over 10 million members nationwide and securing representatives in all electoral sectors of the country, even as public confidence in the organization has notably eroded.

Issue Nov 19-Dec 07 2025: The Morena group in the Chamber of Deputies announced a proposal for a constitutional reform to change the date by which President Sheinbaum can be impeached.

Issue Nov 19-Dec 07 2025: Although uncertainty continues to dominate, several tendencies are beginning to take shape for the upcoming presidential election.

Issue Nov 19-Dec 07 2025: A new legal measure in El Salvador, the Law of Registered Legal Entities, aims to create a unified registry for all companies, associations, and foundations in the country.

Issue Nov 19-Dec 07 2025: According to a new report issued by the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (CIDH), the findings of which were presented at Guatemala’s Rafael Landívar University by CIDH commissioner Andrea Pochak on December 1, the Central American country is currently suffering from a human rights crisis characterized by the “instrumentalization of