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Sunday, 22 September 2019

VENEZUELA: Catholic Church dismisses parallel gov’t-opposition dialogue

On 19 September the president of Venezuela’s Catholic episcopal conference (CEV), Monsignor José Luis Azuaje, said he did not believe the new dialogue the de facto government led by Nicolás Maduro has established with a small section of the political opposition will help to resolve the country’s crisis.

Brazil

BRAZIL: Ruling alliance’s leader in the senate offers resignation

Central America & Caribbean

NICARAGUA: Top court rules against human rights lawyer

Mexico

MEXICO: Opposition criticises approval of education reform

Southern Cone

ARGENTINA: Congress sent bill to “reprofile” debt

LatestWeekly Report

Maduro turns the screw on Guaidó

Venezuela’s de facto government is ratcheting up the pressure on the widely recognised interim president Juan Guaidó with a legal fusillade. At a personal level, not only is Guaidó being investigated for treason in two separate...

LatestEconomy & Business

FDI up, but uneven

Set against the backdrop of a slowing global economy and concentrated flows into the region, in August the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Eclac) released its annual report into the state of foreign direct i...

LatestSecurity & Strategic Review

Bukele’s initial moves

El Salvador’s new President Nayib Bukele took office on 1 June promising, as his predecessors before him, to address the notorious security crisis afflicting the country which registered 3,094 homicides in 2018, the highest in Central Americ...

LatestRegional Report

For the past month, the (geo)political agenda in Brazil & Southern Cone has been dominated by the unexpected results of Argentina’s party primaries (Paso) in August (which gave the opposition Peronist presidential candidate Alberto Fern&...

LatestSpecial Report

For centuries the experience of many indigenous groups in Latin America has been one of resistance. ...

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