Though Sebastián Piñera is still the favorite heading into the December run-off elections, he suffered a real setback over the weekend.
With former president Sebastián Piñera seemingly cruising to victory, Chile appears set to have been ruled by two people for 16 of the 32 years since its transition to democracy.
Peru’s president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, reshuffled his cabinet after the opposition-controlled Congress passed a vote of no confidence. Meanwhile, Odebrecht-related corruption scandals continue to bloom in the country.
Disagreement over a mining project forced Bachelet’s economic advisers to resign from their posts, marking the president’s second break with a Secretary of Finance during her 4-year tenure.
In Sunday’s primary elections, Argentine voters rejected a return to Peronism, and bet on Macri’s Cambiemos coalition for a second time.
As the November presidential elections approach in Honduras, the opposition appears too divided to defeat an unpopular incumbent.
The right is unified behind a single candidate, a newly emerging leftist coalition performs well in its debut, and Chile’s traditional, post-transition coalition is struggling to overcome its differences.
