Democracy
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ECONOMY
Mexico Pays Corruption’s Hidden Tax While Trust Falls Through Cracks
Mexico's latest Inegi corruption report exposes a billion-dollar drain on households and confidence, revealing how bribes, weak policing, poor services,…
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Artificial Intelligence
Colombian Election Memes Turn AI Jokes Into Democratic Warning Signs
As Colombia's May 31 presidential campaign shifts into artificial intelligence memes, fruit melodramas, football fantasies, and superhero security videos, analysts…
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AMERICAS
Uruguay Marks Condor Crime Still Haunting Democracy Fifty Years Later
Fifty years after Zelmar Michelini, Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, Rosario Barredo, and William Whitelaw were murdered in Buenos Aires, Uruguay confronts…
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ANALYSIS
El Salvador Rewrites Its Rules as Bukele Locks in Power
In El Salvador, constitutional reform has become political speed, as Nayib Bukele's allies reshape elections, courts, punishment, and representation, raising…
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ANALYSIS
Costa Rica Crowns a New Era as Fernández Takes Power
At San José's National Stadium, Laura Fernández became Costa Rica's fiftieth president and second woman to hold the office, turning…
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ANALYSIS
Peru Election Fury Turns Fraud Claims Into Democratic Crime Scene
Rafael López Aliaga's fraud accusations have pushed Peru's election dispute into darker territory, where anger at electoral authorities, fear of…
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AMERICAS
Venezuela Raid Bet Exposes Democracy’s New Casino of Secret Wars
A U.S. soldier's alleged Polymarket windfall after Maduro's capture turns Venezuela's crisis into a warning about secret wars, crypto betting,…
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Politics
Latin America’s Approval Kings Reveal Democracy’s Sharp New Price Tag
Latin America's presidential approval map shows a region rewarding order, punishing drift, and measuring democracy less by institutions than by…
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ANALYSIS
Peru Counts So Slowly It Makes Elections Look Dirty
Peru's election mess is not only about missing ballots or delayed tallies. It is about a democracy that keeps producing…
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ANALYSIS
Colombia Lets Its Peacemakers Bleed While Democracy Calls It Progress
Violence against Colombia's social leaders kept rising in 2025, exposing a democracy that still struggles to protect its bravest citizens.…
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