Issue Oct 05-11 2022: As a recent poll puts incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro as jumping from 51% to 63% of the vote share in the second round of Brazil’s presidential elections, opponent Luíz Inácio “Lula” da Silva will “intensify” his search for support among evangelical Brazilians and the middle class.

Issue Oct 05-11 2022: An interview with political scientist Paula Távara gave insight into Peru’s current political crisis, the lesson to take from the regional and municipal elections, the factors decreasing the youth’s political involvement, and the strategies attempting to undermine the population’s trust in democratic principles and institutions.

Issue Oct 05-11 2022: Colombian President Gustavo Petro presented a new reform, and similar to the reforms of previous presidents, it has unforeseeable effects.

Issue Oct 05-11 2022: Even though the legalization of new political parties could generate a false perception of increased democracy, such may be the reflection of a broken pluralistic system.

Issue Sep 28-Oct 04 2022: The government of Colombia under President Gustavo Petro is yet to see the opposition take shape and the face of the leader who will come to represent it.

Issue Sep 28-Oct 04 2022: President Gabriel Boric of Chile calls for the opposition to listen to its people to prevent committing the same mistakes from the previous constitutional process in 1980.

Issue Sep 28-Oct 04 2022: Rafael López Aliaga, a candidate for mayor in Peru’s capital of Lima, gave an interview in which he described what makes him the best option for the city.

Issue Sep 28-Oct 04 2022: Both universities and professional schools seem to be on equal ground, having won and lost in different regards.

Issue Sep 28-Oct 04 2022: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) urged the senators to retract their vote against the expansion of military initiatives.

Issue Sep 21-27 2022: On the anniversary of the disappearance of the 43 students from the Escuela Normal Rural Isidro Burgos in Ayotzinapa, normal school students from Chihuahua, Jalisco, Aguascalientes, Michoacán, and Oaxaca, as well as teachers and civil organizations from Guerrero, Chiapas, and Morelos, marched in solidarity with the parents of the young people