With Parliament dissolved after a no-confidence vote, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff are jockeying to win over disenchanted voters.

A “no confidence” vote set the wheels in motion for Canada’s fourth general election in seven years. The May 2 vote will determine whether Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party continues to run a minority government.

As Peru’s election day draws near, a series of new polls show that it’s still anyone’s race.

U.S. President Barack Obama told an audience in Rio that Brazil is a “thriving democracy” and a model for movements rising against authoritarian governments in the Middle East and North Africa.

As long as Cuba remains under U.S. embargo, it is unlikely that the country will rise up against its repressive regime as we have seen other countries do recently, writes AS/COA's Christopher Sabatini.

Six months since he took office, Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos’ high approval rating and backing in Congress could help usher through a law that would provide reparations to victims of his country’s conflict.

An AS/COA panel featuring Director of the Latin American Public Opinion Project Mitchell Seligson explored the findings of a 2010 public opinion poll across 26 countries in the Western Hemisphere.