Issue Nov 19-Dec 07 2025: Even a brief survey of the current Argentinian political scenario is enough to realize how bizarre it has become. The spectacle is almost surreal: witness the war between the national government, pro-government media, and the Argentinian Football Association (AFA) currently dominating journalistic, digital, and mass-media conversation. It is the sort

Issue Nov 12-18 2025: The president of Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chaves, may be facing trial for the second time in less than a year.

Issue Nov 12-18 2025: During the inauguration of the Juventud Universitaria Peronista’s new leadership at the National University of Quilmes, the governor of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, called for greater involvement among fellow party members in building peronismo’s future and “updating” the organization as whole.

Issue Nov 12-18 2025: In a historic referendum vote, Ecuador has rejected President Daniel Noboa’s proposals to, among other things, reinstall foreign military bases in national territory and convene a Constitutional Assembly with the aim of drafting a new Magna Carta to replace the current one enacted by former President Rafael Correa.

Issue Nov 12-18 2025: Mexico’s Gen Z is rising up to support the right wing. At least, that’s how the right wing is marketing recent protests.

Issue Nov 12-18 2025: Analysts see the 2025 Honduran elections relying on three fronts at once: solidifying a party’s loyal base, persuading independents, and mobilizing young voters. More than 700,000 new voters enter the rolls this cycle, expanding the potential impact of youth and undecided voters, although neither group is decisive on its own.

Issue Nov 05-11 2025: If democracy works as it does in Argentina, then electoral triumphs usually have two sides to them: they are both clarifying while also being deceptive.

Issue Nov 05-11 2025: The right in Chile is on the advance because its promises to tackle urgent issues such as crime, employment and economic growth would appear to be more credible than those made regarding the same problems by the left.

Issue Nov 05-11 2025: Dina Boluarte herself is not a central political figure, but the years of her presidency have deepened Peru’s institutional decline.

Issue Nov 05-11 2025: Mexico has been amid a 20-year long wave of criminal violence stemming from the structural empowerment of organized crime and the fragmentation of political power.