In the past few days, members of the OAS (Organization of American States) have been discussing Venezuela’s situation. In particular, the decision by Luis Almagro’s - who is the Secretary-General of OAS - to invoke the Democratic Charter over the current political crisis in Venezuela was spoken about. The decision could have resulted in the country being suspended from OAS. Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Delcy Rodriguez, gave a speech which was considered to have had a substantial impact on the final decision in which most of the countries declared their support in taking further action to assess the legitimacy of Almagro’s action, for which 19 voted in favor, 12 voted against and 3 abstained.

Venezuelan political leaders of the opposition were attacked during a protest against the current president Nicolas Maduro. During the manifestation, they were demanding a referendum against the current president. The group of opposition deputies was trying to get into the election council headquarters in Caracas in order to demand the agency to accelerate the procedure of the authentication of the signatures of the voters. Pictures circulating around the globe show Julio Borges, a Congressman being injured by a man, that Borges identified as one of the government supporters.

Transparency Minister Fabiano Silveira is the second minister of the new Brazilian interim government, implemented after the impeachment and automatic suspension of the president Dilma Rousseff, who quits as a result of the leaked recording connected to the Petrobras scandal. In this recording Silveira makes critics over the Operation Car Wash (Lava Jato) - an investigation that has been carried out by the Federal Police of Brazil since March 2014 over money laundering and corruption allegations at the state-controlled oil company Petrobras. The biggest Brazilian television network TV Globo broadcasted the recording and the newspaper O Globo printed an additional editorial demanding Silveira's resignation.

The planning minister Romero Jucá decided to resign following the release of the telephone conversation in which he speaks about removing president Dilma Rousseff from office. Jucá didn’t deny that that the conversation took place, however he claims that his words were taken out of context. In the leaked call, Jucá also speaks about the "national pact" that could stop the Operation Car Wash  (Lava Jato) - an investigation that has been carried out by the Federal Police of Brazil since March 2014 over money laundering and corruption allegations at the state-controlled oil company Petrobras in which many politicians have already been charged.

Following the previous decision of the Lower House of Congress which approved the impeachment procedure of the President Dilma Rousseff,  Eduardo Cunha,  speaker of the Lower House of Congress and one of the biggest opponents of the current Brazilian President, was suspended by the Supreme Court from all congressional duties. Cunha is investigated for the alleged impeding of corruption investigations and intimidation of lawmakers. This suspension seems to be greatly significant since in case of the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, Eduardo Cunha would become Vice-President of Brazil. Cunha was in fact the next in line for the Presidency after Michel Temer, who is also facing impeachment procedure. This decision comes a few weeks after Cunha led a charge to impeach President Dilma Rousseff in the Chamber of Deputies. However, Rousseff accuses both Cunha and Temer of plotting a coup against her.

Following the victory of Donald Trump during the primaries in Indiana on 3 May, both Ted Cruz at the same day and John Kasich on the next day decided to drop out of the race for the Republican nomination. This means Donald Trump is the only left in the race which makes it inevitable he will grab enough delegates in subsequent primaries to clinch the Republican nomination during the 2016 Republican National Convention, which will be held from 18-21 July. A victory of Donald Trump already seemed evident during earlier primaries, despite the efforts of the Republican establishment to stop him and the effort of the ''Never Trump'' movement. Ted Cruz and John Kasich had also attempted to work together to stop him. The hope of bringing about a contested convention however has been destroyed now as well for the Republican Party, which is broadly divided about Donald Trump, as a significant part of the party does not endorse him.