It is still a year before Argentines will take stock of the legacy of the left-leaning governments of President Néstor Kirchner and his wife and successor President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, but the handicapping is underway. 

President Juan Manuel Santos and Senator and former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez used to be allies, but then became the bitterest of opponents.  Can they “smoke the peace pipe”?   

Venezuelans marched in the streets of Caracas protesting against violence, yet still split between government supporters and opponents.

The results of Peru´s regional and municipal elections on October 5, many analysts say, showed that national political parties are disintegrating and corruption is infiltrating the political process. 

Investigations show the political influence of Chile’s top ten business groups, as the “Pentagate” scandal “continues to heat up.” 

The “sub-national” elections in March 2015 will mark another democratic struggle for power. The ruling party aims to win nine governorships, and is preparing its strategies. 

A group of poets, intellectuals, and representatives of victims’ organizations from various countries expressed their solidarity with relatives of the 43 missing normal school students of Ayotzinapa, disappeared in what they described as a “state crime.” 

President Ollanta Humala said that the position of the Peruvian government with respect to the so-called “terrestrial triangle” is clear and “consistent” with the 1929 Treaty signed with Chile.  

Analysts weighed the impact of President Dilma Rousseff’s reelection on Colombia. 

At the beginning of the civil war, thousands of children who survived operations by the military were taken, had their identities altered, and were sent to adoption centers abroad as part of the international black market in children.