Mexicans feel a powerful malaise about their society and disenchantment with their political machinery. Though such feelings are widespread and touch all parties, much of this discontent has fallen heavily on President Enrique Peña Nieto. He continues to push back against his critics, though with limited success.

Many on the left are disenchanted with the PT government, but still don’t think impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff is the answer, even though they argue that her government “does not represent us.” 

Block 192, in the Andoas area of Loreto bordering with Ecuador, produces oil that is carried in the North Peru Pipeline to the coastal port of Bayovar, and in recent weeks Peruvian politicians have gone back and forth on it. 

Neither of the two main candidates for president, Daniel Scioli and Mauricio Macri, have said much about the “vulture funds” during their campaigns, but both have been working behind the scenes. 

To the surprise of many pundits, television comedian Jimmy Morales shot out of the pack to take a significant lead (with about 24%) in the first round of Guatemala’s presidential election on September 6, 2015.  Guatemalans were in an anti-establishment mood just days after sitting President Otto Pérez Molina resigned and was arrested on corruption

The Colombian government has done its best to hide the alarming unemployment crisis in the country, attempting to distract voters’ attention from the issue even as international credit agencies consider lowering the country’s credit rating.

La Nación’s “blitz” against the Buenos Aires Herald continues into its ninth month, the latest attack being launched by Pablo Sirvén, one of the newspaper’s managing editors.

During his third presidential address, Mexican head-of-state Enrique Peña Nieto warned his nation of the dangers of populism.

In Luque, the Paraguayan capital of the arts, a woman is keeping alive the ancestral art of traditional guitar-making.

The Colombian tradition of literary criticism got started in earnest in the nineteenth century when prolific columnist Luis Tejada published a number of short, unclassifiable articles in various national newspapers, pieces that would later be roughly categorized as “crónicas” since nobody knew what else to call them.