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Weekly Report - 16 February 2012 (WR-12-07)
MEXICO: Into the closed season
This is a frantic and fraught time for Mexico’s political parties. All of them are scrambling to nominate their candidates for federal senate and lower chamber seats without triggering splits which could cost them ground in municipalities and states. The three main parties have all picked their presidential candidates who now, like all candidates for public office, have gone into a six-week closed-season (which began on midnight 15 February). During this closed-season the parties and their prospective candidates are not allowed to campaign. Candidates have to register by 22 March and the election campaigns restart at midnight on 29 March, and thus become a three-month sprint to election day on 1 July.
- Humala lands symbolic blow on Sendero
- VENEZUELA: Triumphant Capriles comes under heavy fire
- BOLIVIA: Morales re-opens can of worms
- COLOMBIA: Fugitive launches anti-Santos campaign
- BRAZIL: The Evangelicals pull rank
- MEXICO: Into the closed season
- MEXICO: Still Peña Nieto’s presidency to lose
- TRACKING TRENDS
- PANAMA: Martinelli breaks a promise
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Medina and Mejía enter home straight
- TRACKING TRENDS
- Prison disaster casts spotlight on Honduran problems
- Quotes of the week