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Weekly Report - 13 October 2016 (WR-16-40)
VENEZUELA: Ramos condemns TSJ’s ‘criminal attitude’
The president of Venezuela's opposition-controlled national assembly, Henry Ramos Allup, condemned the supreme court (TSJ) for its “criminal attitude” after it ruled to assign itself the power to approve the 2017 draft national budget instead of the legislature. The TSJ, he declared, had “suspended the constitution”. Constitutional lawyers for the opposition Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD) coalition said the latest move was clear evidence of the fact that there is no longer a functioning democracy in Venezuela. Defiant, President Nicolás Maduro said the 2017 budget would be approved immediately.
- Fernández begins fightback but Macri is in the ascendancy
- COLOMBIA: Santos launches two new peace negotiations
- VENEZUELA: Ramos condemns TSJ’s ‘criminal attitude’
- BRAZIL: Temer pushes ahead with austerity plan
- MEXICO: Resurgence of violence poses political problem
- TRACKING TRENDS
- HAITI: A new humanitarian crisis
- HONDURAS: Shadows lengthen again
- Peru and Ecuador focus on energy integration
- Quotes of the week