Weekly Report - 14 March 2024 (WR-24-10)

Haiti’s prime minister, Ariel Henry, has confirmed that he will step down once a transitional presidential council is inaugurated, and an interim prime minister named.... Read More

Peru’s congress stopped short of impeaching the entire judicial council (JNJ) this week but it did vote to dismiss two of the seven magistrates sitting on the body that hires and fires judges and prosecutors and appoints the heads of the country’s electoral authorities.... Read More

After weeks of gridlock that at one point sparked an eruption of violent protest in Bogotá and expressions of international concern, Colombia’s supreme court has finally reached a consensus on the country’s next attorney general.... Read More

As was no doubt the intention of Venezuela’s government, the opposition is showing signs of fracturing in the run-up to the 25 March deadline set by the national electoral council (CNE) for the registration of presidential candidates.... Read More

There are few things likely to cause greater public resentment in difficult times than the perception that ‘we are not all in it together’.... Read More

National pollsters have released data showing a decline in public approval for the federal government and for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.... Read More

ARGENTINA | Is inflation losing steam? It is difficult to strike an optimistic note when presiding over the country with the highest inflation in the world.... Read More

The police killing of a student from the Ayotzinapa rural teacher training college in Mexico’s Guerrero state has sparked a fierce backlash, with protests concentrated in state capital Chilpancingo.... Read More

International Women’s Day on 8 March once again saw hundreds of thousands of protesters take to the streets across Mexico in order to demand greater rights and security for women.... Read More

The kidnapping of Jaime Barrera Rodríguez, a prominent journalist in the western state of Jalisco, on 11 March sparked an outpouring of concern and calls for the authorities to act.... Read More

Honduras’ former president Juan Orlando Hernández (Partido Nacional, PN, 2014-2022) has been found guilty by a US federal court on three drug and weapons-related counts.... Read More

Paraguayan prosecutors charged former president Mario Abdo Benítez (2018-2023) and eight former officials in his government with various crimes this week designed to discredit his predecessor Horacio Cartes (2013-2018), a business magnate accused of “significant corruption” by the US.... Read More

“The government that I’m running cannot remain insensitive in front of this situation.... Read More