Issue Mar 18-24 2026: Over ten years, the committee has had leaders from both the Left and the Right.

Issue Mar 11-17 2026: The start to recently elected Chilean President José Antonio Kast’s mandate was marked by new measures involving human rights, trade unions, and the environment. Likened by critics to a political backhoe, Kast’s approach is to reconfigure policy by a form of creative destruction, demolishing in order to rebuild from the foundation

Issue Mar 11-17 2026: The human rights organization Equalia has presented a report detailing the ways that women human rights activists in Venezuela have had to transform their work methods to adapt to the increasingly restrictive environment in the country.

Issue Mar 11-17 2026: The details of Mexico’s proposed constitutional reform initiative have finally been made public, and include changes to various aspects of the country’s electoral system, ranging from a reconfiguration of the system of representation in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate, the constitutional ratification of certain affirmative action measures, new rules for

Issue Mar 11-17 2026: The results of the March 8 legislative elections in Colombia offer a glimpse of the way political power is being reconfigured in the country.

Issue Mar 11-17 2026: A recent controversy surrounding Buenos Aires Governor Axel Kicillof has reignited internal tensions within Argentina’s Peronist movement, highlighting deeper strategic debates about its future ahead of the 2027 elections. The episode reflects broader disagreements over leadership, ideology, and political alliances in the post-Milei era.

Issue Mar 04-10 2026: Venezuela ranks last among the 23 Latin American countries evaluated in the Chapultepec Index of Freedom of Speech and the Press, 2025. Together with Nicaragua, the South American nation, according to the report, is a country “without freedom of expression,” scoring only 7.02 points out a possible 100 in the wake

Issue Mar 04-10 2026: Mexico’s electoral reform proposals represent a unique opportunity for the Sheinbaum government to decide whether it is in favor of doubling-down on existing authoritarian trends in the country or whether is it for reversing them.

Issue Mar 04-10 2026: Historically, attempts in Colombia to build politically viable left-wing parties have faced nearly insurmountable hurdles, as is perhaps nowhere better exemplified than in the cases of the Unión Patriótica (UP), which was the target of unrelenting attacks from paramilitary groups operating with tacit consent of the state, and the Polo Democrático

Issue Mar 04-10 2026: Peru’s presidential race is beginning to take clearer shape as the country approaches the April 12 general election, when more than 27 million voters are expected to cast ballots among 36 presidential candidates.