Electoral Circle 2014 in Latin America: Winds of Change?

... social base, as election campaigns and persistent social protests indicate. This growing oppositional mood may be a harbinger of the political intensity of the forthcoming presidential elections. Political analysts expect a run-off in five out of seven elections (the exceptions being Panama, which does not allow for this procedure, and Bolivia, where the current support for Evo Morales is rather high) [6] . Given the massive social protests by the middle class in 2013 in Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Colombia, the pre-electoral discourse among politicians, irrespective of their political allegiances, will have to deal with corruption, social welfare and security, openness of government entities, transparency of governance,...