Latin America is witnessing an all-too-familiar pattern of presidents' manipulating the constitutional framework to seek additional terms in office.

Will President Ortega live up to his democratic discourse, or will the state become a hybrid regime, combining procedural elements of democracy with deep wells of authoritarianism?

South America's first coup since the continent's return to democracy was a curious one. What led Ecuador's indigenous people and military to overthrow the government–and then deny that they had done so?