For three years, researchers and critics have voiced disappointment in the decisions made by María Elena Álvarez-Buylla, the general director of Mexico’s Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Conacyt).

Dialogues in Mexico between delegations of Chavistas and Venezuela’s political opposition have led to an agreement for further consultation with political and social actors.

Both September 12’s electoral defeat of the governing party and the strategic defeat of the Province of Buenos Aires—Kirchnerism’s seat of power— caused a political earthquake.

Brazilians have lived “very bad moments” before, in times of dictatorship, hunger, and lack of hope. There have been “very desperate times in our lives…but never like in these thousand days.”

Bringing Michel Temer back into the political fore was described as the “picture of desperation” of the elites who still hold on to the notion of the terceira via. 

Protests ignited in the streets of El Salvador as groups of entire families, judges, doctors, war veterans, students, feminists, LGBTIQ+ diversity groups, and some leaders of the political opposition rejected President Bukele’s increasing control over the nation’s legislative branches, such as the forced retirement of judges and the endorsement of Bitcoin.

President Pedro Castillo spoke at the 76th Assembly of the OAS Permanent Council held in Washington, D.C.

Concerns regarding political polarization and the future of the presidency continue to grow in Mexico as President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) reaches the halfway point in his six-year term.

While many theorists believed that social media would change existing power relations amongst social classes, nothing has changed.

On September 12, the Argentinian government only received 31% of votes in the primaries.