Issue Oct 22-28 2025: To no one’s surprise, the Câmara dos Deputados’ Ethics Committee, with a Bolsonaro majority, shelved the request to revoke the mandate of Eduardo Bolsonaro from the PL of São Paulo for his actions in the United States against Brazilian institutions.

Issue Oct 15-21 2025: The University of Chile has hosted a televised presentation called “Citizen Proposals,” based on over a year’s worth of participatory work involving roughly 10,000 people from throughout the country.

Issue Oct 15-21 2025: In the wake of the Peruvian Constitutional Court’s dismissal of the so-called “Cócteles case,” involving allegations that Fuerza Popular leader Keiko Fujimori laundered illicit money targeted at financing her political activity, television presenter César Hildebrandt has said on air that he hopes that the controversial political firebrand remains “faithful to her

Issue Oct 15-21 2025: After his much-hyped trip to Washington, celebrated in countless photo ops with U.S. President Donald Trump, Javier Milei returned to Argentina to ballyhoo over the former’s promise to loan the country billions and even buy pesos to prevent bank runs in Buenos Aires, all without budging the Argentinian’s favorability ratings in

Issue Oct 15-21 2025: The Pacto Histórico political coalition’s decision to make use of legislative primaries in selecting its candidates pays service to the tradition of internal democracy so closely associated with the Polo Democrático Alternativo, one of the first party organizations in Colombia to standardize the democratic selection of its officials.

Issue Oct 15-21 2025: Once again, Peru finds itself at a tipping point. In less than a decade, the country has witnessed the fall of five presidents, the dissolution of its congress, and an attempted coup d’état, sowing widespread public distrust in state institutions and the democratic system.

Issue Oct 08-14 2025: Colombian President Gustavo Petro is filling the plazas with citizens coming in droves to support him, worrying his political opponents.

Issue Oct 08-14 2025: The leader of Bolivia’s Unidad alliance, Samuel Doria Medina, has announced that he will present a program for structural reforms to the Political Constitution of the State (CPE).

Issue Oct 08-14 2025: The political winds have shifted for Argentinian president Javier Milei and his new political campaign is characterized by defensiveness more than it is by triumphalism.

Issue Oct 08-14 2025: Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) held a “historic work meeting” with representatives from 58 local political parties around the country, the goal of which was to discuss the latter’s demand to be included in the debate over the electoral reform proposed by President Claudia Sheinbaum.