A new bill that would legalize abortion in Argentina has spurred surprise debate on the gender pay gap, parental leave and political representation. Will Argentinean women finally get their due?
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Why use bullets when you have crayons?
Bolivia's populist leader has been in office for 12 years. He's a thorn in the US's side and an ally of the late Hugo Chávez. Now he's running for a fourth term. But that doesn't make him a dictator.
How did Brazil's wildly popular former president Lula become its most famous convict? Here's what you need to know.
Nearly 40 percent of voters in Costa Rica supported an anti-gay evangelical for president. Maybe progressive Costa Rica is more like its troubled neighboring countries than it once seemed.
Miguel Díaz-Canel, a 57-year-old engineer and Communist Party loyalist, is expected to succeed Raúl Castro as president of Cuba. Will change bring prosperity or instability to the Cuban people?
A former FARC rebel commander-turned- presidential candidate has withdrawn from Colombia's 2018 election. Despite increased violence, the peace accord he signed will probably survive this setback.
New research on Latin America's four recent female presidents disproves the idea that merely putting a woman in power will improve gender equality.
Since 2000, 8.8 million Brazilians have been displaced by disaster, development and crime, new data shows. Now Venezuelan migrants are pouring into the country. Still, Brazil has no real refugee plan.
Can South America's biggest democracy run properly with a broken, corrupt political class seemingly unable to reform?
Almost 50 independents want to run for president of Mexico in 2018. But only a handful will likely make the ballot, in part due to the glitchy election app voters must use to show their support.
The Venezuelan government has just announced that it will hold a presidential election by the end of April. Despite pervasive hunger and discontent, democracy still doesn't stand a chance.
Before #MeToo, Brazilian women launched #MyFirstHarrassment and marched for racial equality. Today, this feminist resurgence is tackling health care, plastic surgery, violence and more.
Trump has attacked NAFTA, saying that cheap, under-regulated Mexican labor hurts American workers. If he's right, then NAFTA negotiations could be a chance to push Mexico on workers' rights.
Venezuela’s ruling Socialist Party won 39 of 40 major mayoral races on Dec. 10. A victorious President Nicolás Maduro is now likely to call a snap presidential election early next year. Can he win?
Nearly two weeks after its election, Honduras still does not have a president. Clashes across the country have killed a dozen protesters, and police are now refusing to enforce a national curfew.
President Nicolás Maduro has announced he will run for reelection, a sign that Venezuela's authoritarian regime now has an electoral strategy for beating the opposition.
Conservative congressional reps in Colombia have been stalling votes on key parts of the country's peace accords through endless petitions and nonstop debate. In short, they're filibustering.
Mexico's 2018 presidential race hasn't even begun, but it's already a nail-biter, featuring two women, a left-wing firebrand, party defections, strange bedfellows and no small dose of scandal.
After the Maduro regime won Venezuela's recent gubernatorial elections, results are contested, people are desperate and the opposition has fractured. Can the resistance survive this setback?
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Latin American Political Processes, National University of La Plata
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Researcher on Conflict, Peace and Development, International Institute of Social Studies
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PhD Candidate in Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge
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Research Associate, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London
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Director of the Center for Political Studies, Andres Bello Catholic University (UCAB)
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Professor of Government, American University School of Public Affairs
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Director, King's Brazil Institute, King's College London
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Lecturer in Latin American Studies, University of Bath
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Assistant Professor of Global Business, St Mary's College of California
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Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
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Director, Latin American Business Environment program, University of Florida
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Professor Emeritus of Latin American Studies and Political Science, University of Florida
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Lecturer in Latin American Studies, University of East Anglia
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Conacyt Research Professor, National Laboratory of Public Policy, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
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Associate professor, Universidad Central de Venezuela
