Politics

Policy

It didn’t last long: Peru is once again without a president

Kathy Zegarra

The new presidential removal confirms that in Peru the problem is no longer who governs, but a system that has made instability its norm.

Costa Rica

Costa Rica’s new political landscape

Carolina Ovares Sánchez

The 2026 elections are reshaping politics in Costa Rica, with the presidency and Congress concentrated in a single party and an electorate mobilized around security and institutional change.

Javier Milei

Milei resurrects Machiavelli

Enrique Gomáriz Moraga

The pompous announcement that Machiavelli is dead was nothing more than a desperate search for a headline.

Politics

Competing visions of belief at Davos: Milei and Carney

Nick Boden

Carney bets on an uncomfortable political formula: if the world stops believing in economic institutions dominated by Washington, its power erodes.

Communication

Gestures, attitudes, words, and pernicious exemplary acts

Manuel Alcántara

Politics today rewards spectacle: lies, insults, and abuses of power that become contagious and erode democratic trust.

Policy

The opposition vice president: An old story in Bolivian politics

Franz Flores

When the person who should be the president’s main ally decides to confront him publicly, Bolivian politics once again reveals a recurring fracture: that of the vice president who turns the office into a platform for opposition.

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