After a long vote count, Keiko Fujimori won the presidency, on her fourth attempt, by a margin of around 45,000 votes. The dictator’s daughter —
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On Sunday, June 21, Colombian voters went to the polls to vote in the second round of the presidential election. That same night, after an
On Monday, June 1, Colombians woke up with an undeniable moral hangover. We felt sad. And angry. It was the morning after the vote in
A specter is haunting Peru. It isn’t the same one that terrorized the elites in the 20th century, or that of revolutions that promised to
From Sidecar On 1 February, Laura Fernández of the ruling Partido Pueblo Soberano won the national elections in Costa Rica by a landslide. With 48
Ecuador began 2026 reeling from an intense cycle of protest in which the public expressed rejection of Daniel Noboa’s neoliberal policies on the streets and
On Sunday, February 1, Costa Rica will hold elections amid the most tumultuous and uncertain political climate in decades. Conservative and right-wing political forces are
Chile’s new president is, among other things, an admirer of Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship “Chile needs order!”, José Antonio Kast proclaimed during his first speech
This intervention offers a series of preliminary analytical arguments on the current Latin American political conjuncture. It argues that the period of progressive hegemony that
Brazil is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for women and LGBTQ+ people: we have some of the highest rates of femicide
What is new about the authoritarianism that we are currently witnessing? It is useful to situate this authoritarianism within, and to see it as an
A recent violent and destructive march calling for the expulsion of Haitians in Punta Cana demonstrates the vehement anti-Haitianism and rising fascism prevalent in the
Verónica Gago is a feminist academic. What this means is that she does not separate her activism as a feminist from her work as an
The streets surrounding Argentina’s National Congress took on tones of purple and green as people dressed in the colors of of the struggle for abortion
From New Lines Magazine On Dec. 4, 2024, the new and not-so-new leaders of the global far right gathered at the Hilton Hotel in Buenos
While everyone offers answers to the causes of the far-right’s victories, they will win and continue to win. To avoid the future that this trend
From The Dial The country’s far right found a model in the former U.S. president. José Derman decided to repurpose his family’s home in La
In May 2023, when Mauricio Garcia killed eight people in an outlet mall in Allen, Texas, it seemed like just another senseless mass murder similar