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.
With record levels of violence, a weakened government, and an impending electoral scenario, Ecuador is heading toward 2026 amid political tensions, institutional fragility, and unmet social demands.
Amid anemic economic growth, rising debt, and mounting internal and external pressures, Mexico faces in 2026 the challenge of governing scarcity without eroding its fragile political and institutional balance.
The advance of new right-wing movements in Latin America cannot be explained solely by ideological cycles; rather, it reflects their ability to transform deep and anomic social discontent into a coherent political project.
Bolsonaro and Chávez, from opposite ideological poles, share the same political resource: the use of religious symbols and narratives to construct themselves as messianic leaders and legitimize power projects that strain liberal democracy.