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  • Chile elects president and renews Congress in the most uncertain context of the last two decades

    18 November, 2021

    On November 21, Chileans go to the polls to elect their next President, to take office in March 2022. Also up for grabs are seats in Congress for the period 2022 – 2026. The electoral system establishes that for a president to be elected in ⇢

  • Upcoming Congress not to have parliamentary majorities, making inter-party consensus crucial

    15 November, 2021

    On November 14, Argentines voted to renew their Congress for the next two years (2021-2023). In both chambers of the Legislative branch, Frente de Todos (ruling party) remains the largest parliamentary group but now lacks the seats to push forward ⇢

  • Argentina to vote for new-look Congress

    12 November, 2021

    On November 14, Argentines will elect 127 deputies and 24 senators in 8 provinces throughout the country (Catamarca, Chubut, Córdoba, Corrientes, La Pampa, Mendoza, Santa Fe and Tucumán).  The candidates to compete in the elections were ⇢

  • Amid outrage from the opposition and international community, Ortega wins fresh term as President

    8 November, 2021

    Nicaragua elected its president and renewed the entire National Assembly for the period 2022-2027. During the next 5 years, the country will continue to be ruled by a Sandinista government with Daniel Ortega at the helm, who with some 75% of ⇢

  • Ortega to seek new presidential term amid criticism and jailed opponents

    4 November, 2021

    Next Sunday, Nicaragua will elect its president and its new National Assembly for the period 2022-2027. The current president, Daniel Ortega, will seek his third consecutive reelection against a backdrop of political and social crises and ⇢

  • IAPA warns press freedom in a state of emergency

    Within the framework of its 77th General Assembly, held between October 19 and 22, the Inter American Press Association presented a report on the state of press freedom in the region. In the Chapultepec Index 2021, Nicaragua, Venezuela and ⇢

  • How Nayib Bukele is becoming “the world’s coolest dictator”

    7 October, 2021

    Since assuming the presidency on June 1, 2019, Nayib Bukele has tightened his grip on power at the expense of eroding democracy and rule of law. At the beginning of this year, the ruling party secured a majority in the Legislative Assembly allowing ⇢

  • Bolsonaro falls in the polls and is already at an all-time low

    17 September, 2021

    Directorio Legislativo presents the latest ranking of Presidents by approval ratings based on surveys of public opinion and perceptions of government management and health across 18 countries in Latin America. Buenos Aires, ⇢

  • Anti-corruption commissions in the Northern Triangle: failures and emerging civil society alternatives

    8 July, 2021

    On June 4, the International Commission against Impunity in El Salvador (CICIES in Spanish) ceased working after a series of accusations and counter accusations with the government of President Nayib Bukele. It follows an established trend in the ⇢

  • With 94.76% of the votes counted and by a slim margin, Pedro Castillo is set to be the next president of Peru for the period 2021-2026

    7 June, 2021

    On Sunday, June 6, presidential run-off elections took place in Peru. With 94.76% of ballots counted, Pedro Castillo of the Peru Libre party is, so far, the most voted-for candidate with 50.15% of the votes vs. 49.85% for the Fuerza Popular ⇢

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