Mike's Bogota Blog

Brazil's Bolsonaro celebrates - but should Brazilians be celebrating? One of the planet's largest, most multiethnic democrac...

Authoritarian Venezuelan Pres. Nicolas Maduro. In the mid-2000s, Colombia's popular and hard-right Pres. Alvaro Uribe wanted t...

Iván Duque, Colombia's virtual president. With 39% of the first-round voting, little short of a huge scandal or a heart attack c...

Najib Razak, ex-Malaysian prime minister, who lost an election this month. A notoriously corrupt strongman appears to hold a lock on...

Humberto de la Calle celebrates victory. The Partido Liberal, once one of the Colombia's two dominant political parties but now ...

Maduro and followers celebrate their 'victory' in rigged voting in Sunday's election. During the 1970s and '80s, whe...

Clinton for president of the U.S. Tuesday's U.S. presidential vote will be a monumental event for both the U.S. and for the worl...

Donald Trump, would-be strongman. U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Venezuelan Pres. Nicolas Maduro may seem ...

' To the streets to fight, to the ballot boxes to protest. Vote empty. ' They're telling you so themselves: Leave your b...

Venezuelan newspaper editor Teodoro Petkoff expects the government to carry out elections, even tho they'll likely lose. (Image: ...

University students from Venezuela protest crime, shortages and restrictions on free speech in their country this afternoon in front ...

Raul Castro: First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, Dictator, and now pro-democracy leader. Today, a supposedly pro-demo...

All for the invisible leader! (Photos from the Agencia Venezolana de Noticias.) Venezuela's supposed President Hugo Chavez missed ...

Chavez's re-re-reelection victory in Venezuela is no surprise. Chavez is undoubtedly popular, even after 14 years in power. But i...

All Vote Together, in Venezuela's National Assembly With the seating of a new Venezuelan National Assembly, with only a slim Chavez ...

Democracy has new life in Venezuela. Despite Pres. Hugo Chavez's efforts to rig the election system in his favor, to muzzle opposition ...