by Strong Americas | Aug 28, 2026
Panama’s party system took shape soon after its 1903 separation from Colombia, when the Liberal and Conservative parties inherited from the Colombian era dominated public life. These two factions, split further by personal rivalries among Panama’s...
by Strong Americas | Aug 27, 2026
Nicaragua’s dominant political force, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), was founded in 1961 and led the 1979 overthrow of the decades-long Somoza family dictatorship. Daniel Ortega, one of the FSLN’s original commanders, headed the...
by Strong Americas | Aug 27, 2026
Jamaica’s modern political system has been dominated since the 1940s by two parties: the People’s National Party (PNP), founded in 1938 by Norman Manley, and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), founded in 1943 by Alexander Bustamante. Both grew out of the...
by Strong Americas | Aug 27, 2026
Mexico’s modern party system took shape after the 1929 founding of what became the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which governed the country without interruption for more than seven decades in a system the writer Mario Vargas Llosa called “the perfect...
by Strong Americas | Aug 27, 2026
Since independence in 1821, Honduras has constitutionally been a democratic, representative, unitary state with power divided among executive, legislative, and judicial branches. Under the current framework, the president serves as both head of state and government...
