World without law

Donald Trump in Venezuela gives us a much attenuated rerun of the Panama invasion of 36 years ago.

Chile turns (far) right

A big win for the right in Chile to go with its narrow win in Honduras.

Donald Trump's preferred candidate leads by the skin of his teeth in Honduras's presidential election.

Chile looks set for a far-right president, while Ecuador clips its president's wings in a referendum.

Chile looks like continuing its alternation in power of left and right, but this time it could be the far right that benefits.

Argentina's president gets a more sympathetic legislature, and Dutch voters turn against the far right.

The centrist candidate scores a comfortable win in Bolivia, and Argentina's libertarian president faces a test in mid-term elections.

Brazil's former president is convicted of an attempted coup; similar charges are being brought in Romania, but the US's plotter remains at large.

Two decades of left-wing rule come to an end in Bolivia, with two right-of-centre candidates to contest the presidential runoff in October.

Interim leaders in Gabon and Ecuador both win election to full terms, but neither without controversy.