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Paraguay’s New President
By: Daniel Nardini Paraguay’s new president, Mario Abdo Benitez, was elected by less than a four percent lead over his opponent Efrain Alegre. Benitez, a leading member of the ruling… Read more
Giant Guatemalan Land Grab
By: Daniel Nardini The Guatemalan government has claimed that 98 percent of all registered Guatemalans have voted for taking a long standing border dispute between Guatemala and Belize to the… Read more
Will Nicaragua Recognize China or Taiwan?
By: Daniel Nardini The Nicaraguan government has all kinds of economic agreements with China. One of these include the building and improving a canal across the country. Yet the strange… Read more
The Rise of Obrador
By: Daniel Nardini The Mexican presidential election will be held on July 1st. The three main contestants for this election are: the Institutional Revolutionary Party’s candidate Jose Antonio Meade; the… Read more
What Direction for Peru?
By: Daniel Nardini It has happened. Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigned from his office instead of face an impeachment vote from the Peruvian Congress which seemed almost certain. The… Read more
The Mystery of the Cocoliztli Plague Solved?
By: Daniel Nardini We know what it was from the Spanish chronicles of the time; in 1545 a devastating plague struck the Aztec people (or those who had survived the… Read more
The Results of Colombia’s General Election
By: Daniel Nardini In the general election for Colombia’s Congress, right wing parties have won the majority of the seats although they fell short of retaining a majority in the… Read more
Peruvian President Up for Impeachment?!
By: Daniel Nardini The Peruvian Congress may try to carry a second motion of impeachment on scandal-plagued Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. The first motion of impeachment, which failed, was… Read more
Demanding Salvadoran Military Records on Missing Children be Opened
By: Daniel Nardini Even after the Salvadoran Supreme Court ruled that all of the Salvadoran military records on all missing children from the civil war (1980-1992) must be opened, the… Read more
Nigerians Crossing the U.S.-Canada Border
By: Daniel Nardini While U.S. President Donald Trump is complaining about the Mexican government not doing enough about the Central American refugees crossing through Mexico to get to the U.S.-Mexico… Read more »