An increase in incarcerations, legal punishment, and physical assaults are occurring in the country in lieu of court cases that dispute traditional freedoms and protections existing in the modern world of journalism.

“Latin America is experiencing a profound deterioration in fundamental freedoms both in countries whose governments have been democratically elected and in others where their leaders remain in power in questionable ways,” HRW argued.

The Office of the Attorney General launched investigations into the president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, for influence peddling, collusion, and other acts.

President Alberto Fernández admonished the “Macrian Gestapo” which was the former administration’s practice of using encrypted cellphones to illegally gather information.

In the last two plenary sessions of 2021, many Nuevas Ideas (NI) party legislators were absent during key votes.

An alliance between the social democrats, liberals, and conservatives committed to the democratic state – the “axis” of the Fernando Henrique Cardoso administration – “has not materialized” as no unified leadership has been able to convert the caucus into a viable electoral bid.

With the upcoming June 5th elections in Mexico, the polls indicate the Morena party winning five governorships.

This is what political theorists call “institutional coordination between the various organizational areas of a ruling party.”

—Researched and written by Holly Haynes– Elected in July 2021, Peru’s ostensibly leftist President Pedro Castillo won with a small margin of 44,000 votes, reflecting the country’s fragmented political reality. The ex-schoolteacher, who had previously never held political office, beat out Keiko Fujimori, daughter of infamously corrupt President Alberto Fujimori. Castillo’s victory was perhaps a

In 2021, Sergio Ramírez published a new novel, Tongolele no sabía bailar which takes place in the convulsed Nicaragua of 2018.