In Latin America, political instability often translates into deep governance crises, threats to democratic order and constant uncertainty about the future.

We have uncertainty, absence of government and loss of sense of politics, the ideal ingredients for a perfect political storm. 


The administration, labeled as a “government of improvisations,” relies on reactive stopgap actions and improvised solutions rather than comprehensive planning to address the crises.

International headlines about the invasion of Haiti's National Penitentiary, in an attack attributed to Barbecue's leadership, resulting in the release of more than 3,000 inmates reinforce the idea of absolute chaos and disorder in a Caribbean country of most African descent population.

The democratic paradigm was installed in Latin America with greater aplomb than in other regions during the third wave of democratization. But it is currently suffering from corruption, drug trafficking, the far right, authoritarian leftists and inequality.

In Guatemala, there is a glimmer of hope after the darkness of the last governments, still expectations must be cautious.