AS/COA News Analysis

President Sebastián Piñera may seek to pass a popular but politically challenging reform of Chile’s binomial system.

Indigenous Bolivians from the country's Amazonian lowlands are fighting a presidential plan for a transoceanic highway.

With former First Lady Sandra Torres out of the race, retired General Otto Pérez Molina faces little competition in the lead up to Guatemala’s September 11 presidential election.

Brazil's agriculture minister stepped down August 17 as President Dilma Rousseff continues to root out corruption, leading to another cabinet shuffle. Her efforts to clean up government could spur tensions in her coalition.

Immigration activists organized a national action day on August 16 to demand an end to Secure Communities, the immigration enforcement program that the Obama administration plans to deploy nationwide by 2013.

Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner won the country’s first primary election handily on Sunday, taking more than half the votes. Facing a splintered opposition, it looks increasingly likely that she could win October’s presidential election in the first round.

Nervousness in world markets has cast a shadow over Latin America’s economies. But unlike previous crises, many analysts view the region as a motor for future growth, even as advanced economies struggle.