Weekly Report - 23 May 2024 (WR-24-20)

President Luis Abinader won re-election in the Dominican Republic at a canter on 19 May.... Read More

An unedifying spat between Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa and Vice President Verónica Abad played out on the international stage this week.... Read More

The south-western Colombian departments of Cauca and Valle del Cauca have suffered a string of attacks by the Estado Mayor Central (EMC) – the largest grouping of dissident units of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrilla group.... Read More

Peru’s congress voted on 17 May to archive three impeachment motions against President Dina Boluarte, which accused her of obstructing justice and taking unauthorised leave to receive cosmetic surgery.... Read More

BOLIVIA | Anger over dollar shortages.... Read More

Some kind of diplomatic fallout always looked likely when Argentina’s President Javier Milei decided to attend an event organised by the far-right Spanish opposition party Vox in Madrid ahead of elections for the European Parliament on 19 May, without following protocol and meeting any member of the Spanish government during his visit.... Read More

Thousands of mayors and other local officials from towns and cities across Brazil gathered in the capital on 20 May for the four-day ‘Marcha dos Prefeitos’ event run every year by the national confederation of municipalities (CNM).... Read More

The top electoral court (TSE) concluded an impeachment trial on 21 May in which it ruled in favour of Senator Sergio Moro, affiliated with the centre-right party União Brasil (União).... Read More

Security was the focus of the third and final debate between Mexico’s presidential candidates, which took place on 19 May.... Read More

Attacks on candidates running for local seats left at least 15 people dead in Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas between 16 and 19 May.  The incidents, which took place in the municipalities of La Concordia, Villa Corzo, Mapastepec, and Rincón Chamula, came shortly after bishops in the state warned that certain areas of Chiapas did not have the necessary conditions to host elections due to high levels of violence.... Read More

Panama’s president-elect José Raúl Mulino has unveiled his cabinet picks ahead of taking office on 1 July.... Read More

Guatemala’s President Bernardo Arévalo has sacked his communications & infrastructure minister (CIV), Jazmín de la Vega.... Read More

Whilst Edmundo González may be the official candidate of the opposition coalition Plataforma Unitaria Democrática (PUD) in Venezuela’s 28 July election, it is María Corina Machado who calls the shots.... Read More

“I will not stand as a candidate again.... Read More