Latin America Edition

Ana, the mother of a 24-year-old detainee who wishes to hide her real identity, has spent more than ten nights outside detention centers searching for information about her son.

Since the start of 2026, Cuba has been entering one of the most severe crises in its contemporary history. Across the island, daily life is being reshaped by shortages...

"Co-presidents" Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo have offered the country as a regional platform for Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran, seeking support amid the international...

Brazil’s next presidential election, scheduled for October 2026, is once again likely to unfold in a context of intense political polarization. On the left, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

In what Colombian authorities are calling a hitman-style attack, Venezuelan human rights and LGBTQ+ activist Yendri Velásquez and political consultant Luis Peche...

Bolivia’s president-elect Rodrigo Paz revealed this month that he has asked El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele for help in managing Bolivia’s prisons, saying...

On December 16, Chile went to the polls to elect members of the lower chamber and half of the Senate. However, the main event of the day was the first ...

Bolivia's current crisis has been described as multidimensional. That is, society itself is in crisis due to polarization rooted in both ethnic and ideological ...

Brazil’s political scene is moving toward 2026 with the center-right in disarray. What emerges is less a coherent strategy than a puzzle of pieces still waiting to fit together. 

The Javier Milei administration will face two crucial political tests within the next two months. On September 7 Buenos Aires province Argentina’s most populous district...

In late July 2025, El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly approved sweeping constitutional reforms, abolishing presidential term limits, extending terms from five to six years...

Violence in Colombia has long been the thread stitching together its mountains and rivers—silent witnesses to bloody deaths, judicial processes which end with money...

On May 25th, 2025, the people of Suriname will head to the polls to elect a new government for the 2025–2030 term, in what is expected to be one of the most ...

In what many experts are calling an unprecedented rollback of humanitarian diplomacy, several Latin American countries have made the decision...

“I won’t vote, because this isn’t an election. There’s no one to vote for, and since last year, Maduro’s government has been as fraudulent as it can be,” explains María

Bolivia is currently experiencing a hybrid balance of payments crisis. As of December 2024, the country reported a current account deficit of 12% of GDP

Argentina is now at the forefront of an international political and cultural revolution.  Javier Milei's disruptive and unapologetically anti-establishment profile...

The events of November 13th, 2024, must be viewed in the context of the political battle currently unfolding for control of public discourse on social media ahead ...

Bolivia's current economic reality is closely connected to its political landscape, particularly as the 2025 presidential elections draw close. 

Nearly US$600 million was invested by foreign oil companies in the search for oil off the coast of the Republic of Suriname.  In January 2020, the first lucrative oil ...

Suriname is falling short in the fight against corruption, money laundering and terrorist financing. That is the conclusion of the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force

As the July 28th presidential election approaches, Nicolás Maduro's continuation in power seems less certain than in previous polls. 

The massive marches in defense of public universities in Argentina mark a turning point in Javier Milei’s presidency. In a nation grappling with economic turmoil...

Haiti, a Caribbean nation already burdened with a history of political turmoil and socio-economic challenges, finds itself grappling with a new and devastating crisis...

Nayib Bukele did not wait for the official results on February 4 to declare himself the victor of the presidential elections, ushering in a significant shift in the democratic political... 

In October 2023, Daniel Noboa became the youngest person to be elected President of Ecuador.  However, Noboa has inherited a major problem which he must overcome...

Geopolitics revolves around the control of natural resources. Our territory has been endowed with many minerals that, at different times...

Dozens of priests have been imprisoned and subsequently exiled. Temples are under surveillance, and homilies are being recorded. 

On October 15, Ecuadorians will attend the second Presidential and Legislative Elections round. The two favourite candidates are Luisa González...

Bolivia commenced exporting Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to Argentina in the 1970s and later extended its market to Brazil in the 1990s.  

The impending general election on October 22 presents a unique scenario in recent Argentine history. There is a possibility of a distinctly right-leaning party winning...

On August 24, the Government of Honduras extended the State of Emergency for an additional 45 days, marking the eighth consecutive extension. 

Ushuaia, a small city of about 140,000 inhabitants, is a popular place to live as it’s a tourist city recognized worldwide as “the end of the world.”  

Argentina is one of the largest countries in Latin America, geographically speaking, and one of the most important economies in the region.

The demonstrations that started in December 2022 following President Pedro Castillo's failed coup and subsequent removal and arrest have only gotten bigger and ...

The province of Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica, and the South Atlantic Islands is Argentina's southernmost and most extensive province. 

After more than seven years, the Colombo-Venezolana border re-opened on September 26, 2022.  On August 7th, 2022, Venezuela welcomed President Gustavo Petro...

“I’ve been a teacher for 25 years, and the situation has been particularly hard for the past seven,” said Mario Villanueva, a second and third-grade public school teacher in Petare...

On September 1 at 8:52 p.m. local time in the upscale Recoleta neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, a man identified as Fernando André Sabag Montiel (35) waded through a crowd...

Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina hold the largest reserves of this increasingly valuable metal. But in the face of global demand for making batteries, these countries...

Paraguay is the only South American country that currently recognizes Taiwan as not a part of China (Bloomberg News 2021). 

On October 2, 2022, the extreme right will face the radical left in the battle to determine who will be the next President of Brazil.  

When Debanhi Susana Escobar went missing on April 9, there was confusing information about the events that led to her disappearance.

El Salvador might very well be one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a journalist.  The severe level of violence, police brutality...

On April 29, 2021, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reached a USD 688 million Staff-Level Agreement with the Republic of Suriname.  

When Walnier Luis Aguilar Rivera turned 21, he was sentenced to spend more time than he had lived in a prison in Cuba for participating in the demonstrations on July 11, 2021. 

Gustavo Petro is the likely favorite to become the first leftist president in Colombia.  He also once picked up arms against the state he now wants to lead.  

Despite all its economic and political troubles, could Venezuela be on the path of becoming a legitimate Crypto Nation? Well, until the third quarter of 2021...