On 5 March - Super Saturday - and 6 March primaries and caucuses took place for both the Democrats and the Republicans in the states of Kentucky, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Nebraska as well as in Puerto Rico, an US territory. Donald Trump managed to win 2 states while Ted Cruz managed to 2 states as well, showing the race to the nomination might become a race between just them two. Marco Rubio only won the small Puerto Rico. The victories follow an anti-Trump campaign as several members of the so called ''Republican establishment'' such as former Republican nominee Mitt Romney have started to attack Donald Trump in public, calling on voters to vote for other candidates. Looking at the Democrats, Bernie Sanders managed to win 3 states, while Hillary Clinton only won Louisiana, although the latter did get her more delegates then Sanders in total. While Sanders won more states, he seems to struggle to win the ''non-white vote''. The next important primary to held will be on 8 March, in the state of Michigan.

On 4 March 2016, former President Lula da Silva of the Workers Party (PT) in Brazil was detained shortly for corruption investigations. He was questioned for corruption allegations at the state oil company Petrobras. The investigations were part of a larger corruption investigation campaign called ''Aletheia''. His wife, children and the head of the Lula Institute are also suspected of corruption. It means yet another setback for current president Dilma Roussef, which is part of the same political party that has been the most important political party in Brazil since 2002. The country has enough problems already for which the President is blamed such as the economic problems as the country is in one of the worst recessions in decades and the Congress might attempt to impeach President Dilma Roussef who is said to have used funds of public banks to cover budgets gaps of the government. Most of the population has lost trust already in their president, with historically low approval ratings of around 10% as she fights for her political existence.

The so called ''Super Tuesday'' during which primaries of both the Democrats and the Republicans took place in 11 states have been won by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Following earlier wins both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton managed to secure victories in 7 out of 11 states. In the Republican's race, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio followed with 3 and 1 state victories respectively, while the only contender to Hillary Clinton trailed his rival with 4 states. Later on during the day, Ben Carson speculated on dropping his bid for the Republican Nomination. Earlier Republican former contender Chris Christie surprisingly officially endorsed Donald Trump. After their victories, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump aimed at each other instead of their Democrat and Republican collegues. The popularity of Donald Trump is becoming a headache for the Republican establishment that would rather see a more moderate candidate win.

The European Commission and Canada have agreed to change the so called Investor-State Disupute Settlement (ISDS) clause of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). The Agreement was already concluded back in August 2014, but following increased critique of the bigger Transatlantic Trade and Investment Pact (TTIP) Agreement with the US that included a similar clause, the risk arose that the deal with Canada would be struck down in the European Parliament and that the TTIP would suffer a similiar fate in a future vote. The ''disputed'' clause was said according to critiques to give big companies to much power and take away power from states. Both the the mainstream left wing and right wing parties of the European Parliament welcomed the deal, although there is still critique that despite the changes, big companies are still given to much power due to this deal.

Mauricio Macri, the new centre-right President of Argentina following the Presidential Elections at the end of last year, has made a historic deal worth $4,65 Billion, after long negotiations with four big US hedgefunds. Argentina never managed to strike a deal with them, following its economic collapse and bankruptcy back in 2001. Nestor Kirchner that got elected in 2003, and his wife Cristina Kirchner that got elected in 2007 and ruled until the end of 2015, always refused to reach a deal, which made it difficult for Argentina to attract foreign capital, and became more and more isolated economically. It is the first big victory of the new President, following the end of the Kirchners rule. The agreement now has to be agreed on by the Congress of Argentina.

Following the earlier announcement by the White House that a State Visit to Cuba would he held on 21 and 22 March, the government in Cuba announced it would ease restrictions of 7 dissidents in Cuba, making it possible for them to travel to the US. The dissidents were arrested during an event called the ''Cuban Black Spring'' in 2003, a crackdown by the government at the time. Already last year 53 so called political prisons were released from jail in Cuba. While the move is considered as a symbolic gesture to the US, it is criticised as being arbitrary as well since on a regular basis people are still being detained in Cuba for political reasons.