The economic growth that Panama has had in recent years seems to have had little impact on the economy of Panamanian households. 

Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has decided to take a more active role in PT dialogue with social movements and promises to help them press President Dilma Rousseff to meet their demands, while Franco-Brazilian thinker and academic Michel Löwy, who was on tour for the release of his new book on Weber and

Members of the PRD were responsible for the disappearance of the Ayotzinapa students, and this has devastated the party.  Yet President Peña Nieto and his cabinet seem to have lost the confidence of many former supporters.

Though APRA appears to have “returned to the center of the political stage,” in reality it could be “weaker than ever.” 

Obama’s announcement on Cuba deprives the Uribistas of their best arguments against the peace process. 

“Believing that Chilean society has turned to the Left can be a fatal error.” 

Mexicans believe that their society has been “kidnapped by violence,” because of the horrific number of disappeared and murdered. 

The president of the Argentine human rights organization CELS spoke at the Organization of American States on the compatibility of both finding the truth about past dirty wars and achieving justice.   

President Juan Manuel Santos says that any peace process with the ELN guerrillas will be conditional on their ceasing the practice of kidnapping. 

Despite celebrations of the peace accord between the Guatemalan government and the Izquierdista Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG), violence and impunity continue to plague the nation.