This Monday’s full Democracy breakdown on the latest stories in Bolivia, Colombia & Peru. Riots, unrest and instability, coups? Upcoming elections & a presidential runoff for Peru’s top job
For the fourth time, Keiko Fujimori is one election away from Peru’s presidency. Her opponent is a former minister under a president who tried to stage a coup and is now in prison. The June 7 vote is a stress test for a country that has cycled through eight presidents in a decade
New poll has Paloma Valencia overtaking Abelardo De la Espriella for second place — and the runoff math against Cepeda has shifted with it. With violence dominating voter concerns and a Washington warning about democratic deterioration, the final stretch begins
Miners marchs 1,100 kilometers to La Paz. Dynamite is going off outside the presidential palace and economic grievances are real. So is the former president’s fingerprints on the unrest
Classified intelligence shared with Axios reveals Cuba has acquired more than 300 attack drones from Russia and Iran — and has held internal discussions about targeting Guantanamo Bay, U.S. naval vessels, and Key West. Washington says it is on high alert
CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with Cuban officials — including Raúl Castro's own grandson — on Thursday. By nightfall, the DOJ confirmed it plans to charge the 94-year-old former president over the 1996 downing of Brothers to the Rescue aircraft
Mexico names its preliminary World Cup squad — and the stories that matter aren’t just who made it. They’re Ochoa’s history chase, the Chucky Lozano fallout, Aguirre’s club standoff, and the quiet anxiety around Santiago Giménez
Shakira, Madonna, and BTS will headline the first-ever World Cup final halftime show on July 19 at MetLife Stadium. The announcement landed like a thunderclap — and split the global fútbol community in two
For years, Venezuela’s government suppressed its own economic data. Inflation figures, GDP numbers, monetary aggregates — all state secrets. Under Washington’s post-Maduro oversight framework, the Central Bank of Venezuela has begun publishing again, and numbers are not pretty
Hundreds of billions of dollars flow from the U.S. to Honduras, Guatemala, & El Salvador every year. For millions of families, that money is not supplemental income — it is the economy. The question now is how durable those flows are
