AS/COA's Christopher Sabatini writes for CNN-GPS that "[President Hugo] Chávez’s legacy in Venezuela and in the region will be one of institutional debasement and polarization."

The dismissal of Panama’s permanent representative to the OAS is a setback for the inter-American human rights system ahead of a March 22 vote that will decide the IACHR's future.

Christopher Sabatini comments on President Raul Castro's announcement to step down on 2018, "laying the groundwork for the continuation of a post-Castro era."

“Chávez’s experiment is aging as Venezuela continues to chart an unsustainable populist path,” writes AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth for O Estadão.

“O experimento de Chávez está envelhecendo já que o caminho populista está se tornando insustentável”, escreve Eric Farnsworth para O Estadão.

The extreme proposals by Ecuador and Venezuela to improve the IACHR would do exactly the opposite.