Last Sunday, Colombians went to the polls to participate in parliamentary and presidential primary elections. Gustavo Petro won the leftwing Pacto ... Read More
This November, voters in five countries across Latin America head to the polls. In Chile, Argentina, and Honduras, the electorate will have an opportunity ... Read More
There are over sixty—that’s right, 60—candidates competing to become Colombia’s president for the period from 2022 to 2026. Clearly not all of them are ... Read More
On August 21, Yasna Provoste won her country’s center-left primaries. But while Provoste has managed to dominate the Unidad Constituyente (UC) primaries, ... Read More
El inicio de la campaña para las primarias del 18 de julio ofrece una inmejorable oportunidad a los candidatos de derecha para presentar sus visiones de ... Read More
A year of lockdowns, high unemployment, and rising poverty rates has provoked social discontent in Colombia. The current wave of protests—while originally ... Read More
El domingo, los votantes eligieron a Guillermo Lasso como presidente de Ecuador por encima de Andrés Arauz, un populista de izquierda. Algunos analistas ... Read More
On Sunday, voters elected Guillermo Lasso, a former banker and a supporter of free-market policies, as president of Ecuador over Andrés Arauz, a left-wing ... Read More
Pro-democracy activists once held up Latin America as a crowning achievement, a region notorious for 19th-century caudillos and Cold War military ... Read More
The spectre of populism – both of the left and right variety – has hung over Latin American politics and economics since the 19th century but, for the ... Read More