This past year has no doubt been an incredibly interesting one regarding the outcome to the litany of elections held across the region. Ecuador held extremely contentious elections in which the conservative incumbent Daniel Noboa secured a comfortable re-election victory, defeating his main left-wing challenger, Luisa González, in an election dominated by issues of crime and government corruption.
Read MoreOffices trashed, fire alarms blaring, sprinklers set off, stolen artifacts. Congress had become a battlefield of democracy. But this time, it was not Americans attempting to overthrow the government. It was Brazilians. The familiar story took place on the floor of the House of Deputies, the lower House of Congress in Brasilia, Brazil just a week after the inauguration of the new president. This is not common in the history of industrialized states like the U.S. and Brazil, however these two countries took to similar methods after stark electoral losses.
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