With the upcoming June 5th elections in Mexico, the polls indicate the Morena party winning five governorships.

This is what political theorists call “institutional coordination between the various organizational areas of a ruling party.”

—Researched and written by Holly Haynes– Elected in July 2021, Peru’s ostensibly leftist President Pedro Castillo won with a small margin of 44,000 votes, reflecting the country’s fragmented political reality. The ex-schoolteacher, who had previously never held political office, beat out Keiko Fujimori, daughter of infamously corrupt President Alberto Fujimori. Castillo’s victory was perhaps a

In 2021, Sergio Ramírez published a new novel, Tongolele no sabía bailar which takes place in the convulsed Nicaragua of 2018.

The upcoming 2022 Colombian presidential election candidates include coalition parties, dissidents, independent parties, and social movements.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador has served as President of Mexico for three years.

The alliance between Lula and Geraldo Alckmin, ex-governor of São Paulo, makes “total sense,” given their parties’ formative roles in Brazilian re-democratization. In order to rebuild Brazil’s democracy, there is no one more suited for the role than the architects of it themselves.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) called out the opposition to help and reminded President Alberto Fernández (and everybody else) of his own pledge not to sign a predatory agreement with the IMF.

The Bolivian President Luis Arce and former president Evo Morales led a seven-day-long demonstration, where participants walked over 188 kilometers as a response to the strikes the civic sectors of Santa Cruz and Potosi participated in to protest the new anti-money laundering law, which was finally repealed by the government.

Peru’s incumbent President Pedro Castillo is to be investigated by the Office of the Public Prosecutor for breaching public trust.