Issue Sep 28-Oct 04 2022: Rafael López Aliaga, a candidate for mayor in Peru’s capital of Lima, gave an interview in which he described what makes him the best option for the city.

Issue Sep 28-Oct 04 2022: Both universities and professional schools seem to be on equal ground, having won and lost in different regards.

Issue Sep 28-Oct 04 2022: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) urged the senators to retract their vote against the expansion of military initiatives.

Issue Sep 21-27 2022: On the anniversary of the disappearance of the 43 students from the Escuela Normal Rural Isidro Burgos in Ayotzinapa, normal school students from Chihuahua, Jalisco, Aguascalientes, Michoacán, and Oaxaca, as well as teachers and civil organizations from Guerrero, Chiapas, and Morelos, marched in solidarity with the parents of the young people

Issue Sep 21-27 2022: One of the oldest Pentecostal churches in Brazil circulated an announcement, signed by the Council of the Elders, which advised the church’s followers not to vote for any candidates in the upcoming presidential election who stand “against Christian values and principles.”

Issue Sep 21-27 2022: As the decentralization process in Peru reached its 20th year, an interview with political scientist Mauricio Zavaleta discussed the breakdown of Peru’s democracy, the presence of independent coalitions in electoral processes, and the risks that accompanying political apathy.

Issue Sep 21-27 2022: The announcement of El Salvador’s president to seek reelection ratifies a tendency in Latin America of leaders using constitutional courts to dismantle democratic institutions.

Issue Sep 21-27 2022: Frente de Todos officials, parliamentarians, and referents roundly rejected a recent editorial in La Nación that doubted the assassination attack on Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

As Brazil’s presidential election heats up, former President and trade union leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, or Lula, is ahead of his incumbent opponent Jair Bolsonaro in polls of the country’s evangelical Christian population.

Six of the seven candidates running for Governor declared that they do not possess residential property under their name.