With 0.7 percent of the vote separating who will compete in the January runoff, Haitians are demanding justice.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega won congressional approval of three laws that some observers say will deepen executive and military powers. Such moves reflect other regional bids to strengthen or extend presidential power.

Leopoldo López, founder of Voluntad Popular and prominant politician, joined Americas Society and Council of the Americas on December 13 for a discussion about Venezuela’s political and economic outlook ahead of December 2012 presidential elections. Watch the video.

"2010 has been particularly active for hemispheric elections, and the results are instructive as we look for clues of what may come in 2011," writes COA's Eric Farnsworth in PODER Hispanic.

Protests broke out in Haiti after election results showed President Réne Préval’s protégé Jude Célestin edging out Michel Martelly to face first-place-finisher Mirlande Manigat in the January runoff.

In a new interview with The Washington Post's Lally Weymouth, Brazilian President-elect Dilma Rousseff touches on topics ranging from her post-inauguration plans to visit the White House to Brazil's attitudes toward Iran to her plans for fiscal policy and poverty alleviation.

Gabino Cué won election through unlikely political alliances to become the first opposition leader of Oaxaca in eight decades. He spoke with AS/COA Online ahead of his December 1 inauguration about expectations for his government.