Weekly Report - 07 March 2024 (WR-24-09)

Even by recent standards, Haiti plumbed new depths of chaos and anarchy this week amid a series of attacks coordinated by top gang leader Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Chérizier, with the stated aim of bringing down the government.... Read More

After months of speculation, Venezuela’s presidential election has been set for 28 July.... Read More

Peru’s prime minister, Alberto Otárola, announced his resignation on 5 March following the leaking of audio recordings in which he can be heard offering a job to a young woman with whom he had a romantic relationship.... Read More

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro conducted a mini reshuffle this week which saw the most independent-minded technocrat left in the cabinet sidelined and close allies promoted.... Read More

Not since Ecuador’s return to democracy in 1979 has a head of state enjoyed the level of popularity of President Daniel Noboa.... Read More

Argentina’s President Javier Milei opened the new session of congress on 1 March.... Read More

The former commander of the Brazilian army, Marco Antônio Freire Gomes, testified as a witness to the federal police (PF) on 1 March as part of the investigations into an alleged plot for a military coup to overturn the 2022 election defeat of former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023).... Read More

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva hosted an event in his official residence on 5 March to which he invited leading members of the senate, seeking to gain their favour ahead of upcoming legislative challenges.... Read More

BRAZIL | Gig economy regulation bill.... Read More

Mexico’s three presidential candidates kicked off their official campaigns on 1 March.... Read More

MEXICO | Growth forecasts held steady.... Read More

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele tightened his stranglehold on power on 3 March in municipal elections, despite the lacklustre performance of his personalist party Nuevas Ideas (NI), benefitting from gerrymandering.... Read More

Guatemala’s new government led by President Bernardo Arévalo, whose electoral victory last August owed to his pledge to take on the ‘pacto de corruptos’ network of institutional corruption, has called for discredited attorney general María Consuelo Porras to be stripped of her immunity from prosecution over a criminal complaint.... Read More

Regional elections were staged in Nicaragua’s North Atlantic and South Atlantic autonomous regions (Raan and Raas) on 3 March.... Read More

Uruguay’s President Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou delivered his final state-of-the-nation report to congress on 2 March.... Read More

“With our guns and with the Haitian people, we will free the country.”... Read More