In Argentina’s northernmost and highest capital, a fourth-term mayor has changed the environmental landscape.

Local leaders are tackling big problems – often without the partisanship paralyzing national politics.

Foreign involvement is inevitable, but the mistakes of the past can be avoided.

"The assassination of President Jovenel Moïse has amplified the political knife’s edge on which Haiti has long perched," writes AS/COA Vice President Eric Farnsworth for the New York Post.

"He really sees not just that the opposition itself is very weak…but, frankly, that the international community is in disarray," said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to NPR.

Ortega has been dismantling democracy for more than a decade. He is emboldened by impunity.

Despite threats against its very existence, the electoral authority successfully oversaw the biggest elections in the country's history, writes AS/COA's Carin Zissis for World Politics Review.