Weekly Report - 21 March 2024 (WR-24-11)

Argentina’s President Javier Milei completed his first 100 days in power on 19 March.... Read More

What limited popularity Peru’s President Dina Boluarte enjoys is in danger of evaporating after the attorney general’s office opened a preliminary investigation into her for possible illicit enrichment and non-declaration of assets in the wake of a local press report detailing her ownership of more than a dozen watches, including from the luxury Swiss brand Rolex.... Read More

Bolivia’s President Luis Arce issued a warm congratulations to Russia’s Vladimir Putin for his re-election in the 15 March presidential election, in which no genuine opposition contenders were allowed to compete.... Read More

Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro has been officially declared the candidate of the ruling Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV) in the 28 July election, in which he will seek a further six years in power.... Read More

Once again, Colombians are witnessing an ill-tempered institutional standoff between President Gustavo Petro and congress, this time triggered by the fading chances of the government’s health reform bill making it through the senate.... Read More

The attorney general of Brazil, Paulo Gonet, is reviewing a report that was filed by the federal police (PF) on 19 March which recommended criminal charges against former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023) in relation to an alleged scheme to tamper with public health records and create false coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccine certification.... Read More

The head of Chile’s investigative police force (PDI), Sergio Muñoz, was placed under preventive detention on 19 March charged with having leaked classified documents and other secret information.... Read More

ARGENTINA | Economy slumps.... Read More

On 18 March Mexico’s government celebrated the 86th anniversary of the country’s oil expropriation during the government of Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-1940).... Read More

Mexico’s leftist opposition Movimiento Ciudadano (MC) is not having an easy ride of this year’s electoral period.... Read More

On 17 March, protesters took to the streets in Cuba’s second largest city, Santiago de Cuba, and elsewhere, demanding an end to food scarcity and the chronic blackouts which have been afflicting the island of late.... Read More

Guatemala’s President Bernardo Arévalo maintained this week that relations with the US were at an “historic moment”.... Read More

Haitians remain stuck in limbo with armed gangs still controlling vast swathes of the capital Port-au-Prince and a presidential transition council yet to be formally appointed since the resignation of the prime minister, Ariel Henry, in order to pave the way for fresh elections to be held.... Read More

“The president wants his mule to work without feeding it.”... Read More