Prior efforts towards mitigating corruption in Mexico and eliminating its impact on society have entailed high costs and demonstrated few positive results.

During the pandemic, political proceedings in Latin America were stalled, poverty increased, and the economy suffered. However, 2022 is projected to be a year of recovery for Latin America.

When President-elect Gabriel Boric officially enters office in March 2022, Chile’s political transition from military regime to democracy, begun in 1990, will be completed.

Venezuela’s opposition won the gubernatorial election in Barinas, ending a 23-year Socialist rule in the home state of the late Hugo Chávez.

An increase in incarcerations, legal punishment, and physical assaults are occurring in the country in lieu of court cases that dispute traditional freedoms and protections existing in the modern world of journalism.

“Latin America is experiencing a profound deterioration in fundamental freedoms both in countries whose governments have been democratically elected and in others where their leaders remain in power in questionable ways,” HRW argued.

The Office of the Attorney General launched investigations into the president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, for influence peddling, collusion, and other acts.

President Alberto Fernández admonished the “Macrian Gestapo” which was the former administration’s practice of using encrypted cellphones to illegally gather information.

In the last two plenary sessions of 2021, many Nuevas Ideas (NI) party legislators were absent during key votes.

An alliance between the social democrats, liberals, and conservatives committed to the democratic state – the “axis” of the Fernando Henrique Cardoso administration – “has not materialized” as no unified leadership has been able to convert the caucus into a viable electoral bid.