Crime, an energy crisis, and economic stagnation may dim the president’s chances in the February 2025 contest.
Rule of Law & Anti-Corruption
In Ecuador, Mounting Challenges Threaten Noboa’s Reelection
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Sebastián Hurtado
Why Sheinbaum May Take a Different Path on Mexico’s Security
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Sarah Zukerman Daly
The new president’s experience as mayor points to an approach more rooted in enhanced intelligence, mediation, and deterrence.
A Timeline of Mexico's Judicial Reform and Elections
What can Mexicans expect from votes for judges in 2025 and 2027? What other constitutional amendments are on the horizon?
Bolivia Is a Warning for Mexico’s Judicial Reform
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Raúl Peñaranda U.
Electing judges has undermined Bolivia’s justice system’s legitimacy and independence—and weakened the country’s rule of law.
Brazil Says Its Resistance to Elon Musk Is Global Example
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Samantha Pearson
"Long-term investors who know Brazil likely won’t be swayed for now," says AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to The Wall Street Journal.
In Mexico and Brazil, Anti-Corruption Efforts Seem to Have Faded
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Marina Pera, Valeria Vásquez
Policies to fight graft are a low priority in both countries and have lost momentum in the region as a whole.
AMLO’s Judicial Reform Overlooks the Key Weakness of Mexican Justice
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Tyler Mattiace
Prosecutors’ willingness and capacity to investigate crimes is the nation’s judicial system’s weakest link, writes an expert.