In a March El Financiero presidential poll, the PRI’s José Antonio Meade takes the number two spot by a hair, but frontrunner Andrés Manuel López Obrador now has an 18-point edge.

Mexicans may not place faith in government but, as a new survey shows, they trust civil society to step up. An initiative launched in March demonstrates why.

Now that Peru’s president—the host—has resigned, active consideration should be given to postponing the Summit of the Americas until 2019, writes AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth for Univision News.

The country has presidential candidates across the spectrum, say columnists Álvaro Forero Tascón and Adriana La Rotta. And that’s a sign of just how far the post-conflict democracy has come.

Recent legislative elections gave much-needed definition to a crowded field ahead of the May 27 first-round vote.