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Weekly Report - 20 August 2015 (WR-15-33)
ECUADOR: Correa confronts protests and strike
“Democracy has prevailed,” President Rafael Correa said after a day of protests and a general strike on 13 August. “They failed and they will continue to fail because they don’t have popular support,” Correa said in reference not just to the organisers, the trade union Frente Unitario de Trabajadores (FUT) and indigenous group Conaie, but also the right-wing groups whose dirty work he insists they were doing.
- Chile’s Bachelet in fight-back mode
- BRAZIL: Political pressure recedes for now
- ARGENTINA: Floods prompt accusations of dirty tricks
- ECUADOR: Correa confronts protests and strike
- COLOMBIA: Santos and Farc proposals incite criticism
- MEXICO: Stung into action by human rights criticism
- CUBA: Dissidents complain of abandonment
- SURINAME: Bouterse faces much tougher term in office
- PANAMA: Averting Canal threats
- NICARAGUA: Closing a chapter with the US
- Support for Paraguay’s Cartes starts to wane
- Quotes of the week