Ahead of January 26 special legislative elections, constitutional law expert Alonso Gurmendi of Universidad del Pacífico covers how the country’s Magna Carta is holding up.

"Para 2020, com a temporada de eleições nos EUA em andamento, será importante que os dois governos trabalhem juntos", diz Eric Farnsworth da AS/COA.

"The more Maduro can keep [the opposition] on the back of their feet, the more space he has to implement his own policy preferences," said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to Associated Press.

The need to offer concrete results could make the next 12 months the most important of López Obrador’s presidency.

Here are three ways the Maduro government has moved to undercut the opposition-controlled legislature.

Latin America Risk Report’s James Bosworth and AS/COA’s Carin Zissis look at where the region stands as another decade starts.

The coming vote offers a big opportunity for Peru’s anti-corruption fight, and could set the stage for presidential elections next year.