“They think that if the official figures from the central bank and the national statistics institute are not published then inflation doesn’t exist and they suppose the people are stupid and fall for the tale that behind the scarcity and shortages lies the economic war financed by the empire.” Venezuela’s opposition governor of Miranda, Henrique Capriles Radonski. “This result is resounding whatever way you look at it.” Daniel Scioli, the presidential candidate of Argentina’s ruling Frente para la Victoria on his slightly underwhelming victory in the primary elections. “We will help the government as far as we can, the opposition…

After 11 weeks of torchlit marches by protesters incensed by revelations of institutional corruption in Honduras, a dialogue process is tentatively underway. The protest movement, named after Spain’s indignados (outraged), is demanding the establishment of an anti-impunity commission along the lines of Guatemala’s Cicig, backed by the United Nations (UN), to root out this corruption, and is suspicious of a dialogue process proposed by President Juan Orlando Hernández on 23 June. Representatives of the indignados and civil society organisations did agree, however, to meet Luis Almagro, the secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), who visited Honduras on…