Issue Sep 21-27 2022: One of the oldest Pentecostal churches in Brazil circulated an announcement, signed by the Council of the Elders, which advised the church’s followers not to vote for any candidates in the upcoming presidential election who stand “against Christian values and principles.”

Issue Sep 21-27 2022: As the decentralization process in Peru reached its 20th year, an interview with political scientist Mauricio Zavaleta discussed the breakdown of Peru’s democracy, the presence of independent coalitions in electoral processes, and the risks that accompanying political apathy.

Issue Sep 21-27 2022: The announcement of El Salvador’s president to seek reelection ratifies a tendency in Latin America of leaders using constitutional courts to dismantle democratic institutions.

Issue Sep 21-27 2022: Frente de Todos officials, parliamentarians, and referents roundly rejected a recent editorial in La Nación that doubted the assassination attack on Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

As Brazil’s presidential election heats up, former President and trade union leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, or Lula, is ahead of his incumbent opponent Jair Bolsonaro in polls of the country’s evangelical Christian population.

Six of the seven candidates running for Governor declared that they do not possess residential property under their name.

The most recent Cadem survey reveals that 76% of respondents support initiating a new process to create a new Constitution for Chile, and 49% are inclined to define the new constituent process through a plebiscite.

Public opinion following the election of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is threatening the democratic structure of Mexico.

In an in-depth interview, Daniel Zovatto, a political analyst, spoke about the “dark times” that loom over democracies in the Latin American region, as well as the implementation of a new, inclusive democracy to help combat the deterioration that democracy now faces.

The Pacto Histórico por Colombia (Historic Pact for Colombia), a left-wing coalition, officially declared itself a bloc under the leadership of President Gustavo Petro.