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  • 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 ⇢

  • MORENA aiming to deepen its legislative and territorial power to promote “Fourth Transformation”

    3 June, 2021

    On June 6, national legislative elections will be held to renew the entire Chamber of Deputies. Also, at the subnational level, 15 executive and 30 legislative seats will be voted for. Amid questions over the handling of the health crisis ⇢

  • Guillermo Lasso defeats Correa’s candidate to become President-elect for 2021-2025

    14 May, 2021

    On Sunday, April 11, a presidential run-off election was held in Ecuador. With almost 99% of ballots counted, the winner has been announced as Guillermo Lasso (CREO-PSC), who with 52.4% of the votes trimphed over this rival Andrés Arauz ⇢

  • Respond. Recover. Renew

    6 April, 2021

    Sanjay Pradhan is the Chief Executive Officer of the Open Government Partnership (OGP). María Baron is the Executive Director of Directorio Legislativo and the civil society co-chair of the OGP Steering Committee with the Republic of Korea.Open ⇢

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