Costa Rica’s Democracy Faces a New Test, But It Will Endure The election of Laura Fernández extends Costa Rica’s populist experiment. Its democracy will weather it, for now, two experts write.

#Fernández, ran on a #Bukele -inspired tough-on-crime platform and won the election by promising to follow in Chaves’s footsteps. Her campaign slogan was “the continuity of change.” But Fernández has also suggested she intends to go further than her predecessor.

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Uruguay’s Orsi Confronts Economic Headwinds and Shifting Geopolitics One year into his term, President Yamandú Orsi has made moderate gains in security and trade diversification amid new foreign policy pressures and a slowing economy.

#Uruguay’s president #Orsi has just completed his first year in power amid a rapidly changing political landscape. "Latin America’s continuing shift to the right": renewed U.S. assertiveness in the region have created new foreign policy challenges for Orsi’s left-wing...

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