Briefings & Intelligence

The first round of Guatemala's 2023 general election is on 25 June. Twenty-one candidates are vying for the Presidency - but this is not a normal election. Dr Édgar Gutiérrez, political analyst and former Foreign Minister of Guatemala, examines the situation ahead of this Sunday's vote.

Paraguay will elect a new president on 30 April. The election’s outcome, less than a week before polls open, remains highly uncertain. In Canning House's latest blog, Susana Berruecos and Freddy Nevison-Andrews provide an overview of the key points to consider ahead of the vote.

A dysfunctional political system finds itself unable to solve a crisis that was triggered by an undemocratic president, now in prison, and which was deepened by the current president by using lethal force to repress legitimate protests - writes Dr Julio F Carrión.

The 8th of January 2023 will be recorded in history as a deeply dark day for Brazilian democracy. The world witnessed not only an attack against a democratically elected government, but also against the very notion of democratic, republican institutions - writes Dr Vinicius de Carvalho.

Peru faces a deep political crisis in the wake of Pedro Castillo’s failed coup d’état on December 7th. President Boluarte faces quite a difficult task in finding a roadmap to negotiate a constitutional way out of it. The continuation of Peru’s democracy may rest in her ability to do so - writes Dr Julio Carrión.

Latin America has a compelling claim to be one of the big answers to the multiple questions facing humanity in the twenty-first century. We hope our LatAm Outlook 2023 paints an honest, insightful and enticing picture, and thereby makes this case persuasively to you.