Issue Feb 15-21 2023: Representatives of the National Committee for the Defense of Democracy announced that detractors of the Bolivian ruling party will again appeal to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to show respect for the advisory opinion that specified that indefinite re-election is not a human right.

Issue Feb 15-21 2023: The Paraguayan presidential elections will be held on Sunday, April 30, defining the future of the country for at least the next five years.

Issue Feb 08-14 2023: Amid ongoing protests, violence, the immobility of congress, and human rights violations under the de facto government of Dina Boluarte, the discussion about holding a referendum for a new constitution “becomes more and more necessary.”

Issue Feb 08-14 2023: Leftist politicians and parties did remarkably well in Ecuador’s elections for lower levels of government.

Issue Feb 08-14 2023: The political polarization that Mexico is experiencing has “weakened” the pluralism which helped to consolidate the country’s transition to democracy.

Issue Feb 08-14 2023: In Bolivia, bishops believe that the post electoral chaos of 2019 was not a coupe, but instead was fraud and the church acted as a pacifist institution.

Issue Feb 08-14 2023: According to Aristotle there are right ways of doing politics and ways that are misguided. The first of Aristotle’s conditions for political success is to look at the common good.

Issue Feb 08-14 2023: In an interview with The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) former president Jair Bolsonaro confirmed his return to Brazil in March to lead the opposition against President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva and to defend himself from accusations of his involvement in the instigation of protest attacks on government buildings last January.

Issue Feb 01-07 2023: Through his Twitter account, the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, has defended a health reform that has caused controversy across the country.

Issue Feb 01-07 2023: During the last several decades, the limitation of presidential power has been gradual but constant in Mexico.