“The change will be profound and irreversible” asserted Costa Rica’s president-elect, Laura Fernández. The ruling Sovereign People’s Party (PPSO) won the election in the first round with a commanding 48.3% of valid votes cast, nearly 15 percentage points ahead of the National Liberation Party (PLN), the old social democracy. The...

The first round of Chile’s presidential election determined that center-left government candidate Jeannette Jara and far-right opposition leader José Antonio Kast will face off in the December 14 runoff. Although Jara won the first round with 26.75%—3,446,854 votes—against Kast’s 23.96%—3,086,963 votes—everything suggests that the right will win the second...

Far-right leader Javier Milei won Argentina’s mid-term legislative elections, strengthening his position for the final two years of his government. President Milei has already announced that he will send regressive and far-reaching bills to Congress: labor, tax and pension reforms. All three sets of bills share the same goal: favoring...

On October 19, Bolivia will have a new president—and he will be from the right. It is confirmed that the country is about to make a sharp ideological turn since the Movement for Socialism (MAS) came to power in January 2006. Broadly speaking, Bolivia has...

Trade warfare and interference in the free functioning of the judiciary are the current expressions of United States interventionism in Latin America, particularly in Brazil. With the largest economy in the region and the eighth-largest in the world, Brazil holds a central strategic importance for the United States in its...

The Supreme Court of Justice upheld the sentence against Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) of six years in prison and a lifetime ban from holding public office. The case involves fraudulent administration regarding the awarding of 51 road-construction projects in the southern province of Santa Cruz. The first striking detail...

President Luis Arce came to power in late 2020 with a leftist discourse and as the chosen successor to Evo Morales. Five years later, he ends his term without the possibility of running for re-election (he stepped down after polling at just 1%) and with hundreds of political prisoners—all of...

In Ecuador’s presidential runoff, it once again became clear that the main political force is “anti-Correísmo”—those who oppose former President Rafael Correa. Regardless of who the candidates are, the same side has consistently won in recent elections: the right-wing opponents of the Citizen Revolution (RC), Correa’s party. This time,...

“At 18:38 Argentina time on February 14, 2025, one billion units of the cryptocurrency $Libra were created. At 18:51, the market where $Libra could be bought and sold was established. From that moment on, trading was possible, but no one had done it yet. The first transactions began...

Ecuador’s current president, Daniel Noboa, and the left-wing opposition candidate, Luisa González, will face off in a head-to-head runoff election on April 13. With more than 99.96% of the votes counted, the ruling party secured 44.31%, while the candidate aligned with banned and self-exiled former president Rafael Correa obtained 43.97%,...