Weekly Report - 27 March 2025 (WR-25-12)

­­The complex story of US economic sanctions against Venezuela took a new turn this week, with Washington both extending a waiver that allows the US energy giant Chevron to continue oil production in the country for another month, while at the same time announcing the imposition of new punitive measures against countries that buy Venezuelan oil, in the shape of a new 25% import tariff.... Read More

Peru’s President Dina Boluarte has lost her closest confidant in the cabinet.... Read More

The televised debate between Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa and his left-wing challenger, Luisa González, on 23 March may have been the last chance for one of the candidates to pull ahead before the election’s second round on 13 April.... Read More

Germán Ávila Plazas has been sworn-in as Colombia’s new finance minister as was widely expected following the resignation on 18 March of his predecessor, Diego Guevara, who had only been in the role since December [WR-25-11].... Read More

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In a landmark ceremony on 20 March Chile’s President Gabriel Boric promulgated his government’s flagship pension reform.... Read More

A panel of five justices in Brazil’s supreme court (STF), known as the ‘Primeira Turma’ (first chamber), unanimously voted on 26 March to accept the charges submitted last month [WR-25-07] by the office of the attorney general (PGR), which accused former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023) and some of his allies of plotting a military coup in 2022.... Read More

Amid global concerns over the protectionist stance of the US under President Donald Trump, Brazil is facing greater incentive to deepen its trade relations with other partners.... Read More

BRAZIL | Annual budget approved.... Read More

Mexico’s public security minister, Omar García Harfuch, announced a key arrest in relation to a major case on 24 March.... Read More

Teachers affiliated with Mexico’s influential Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE) union took to the streets across Mexico City (CDMX) from 19-21 March, disrupting traffic in the city centre and blocking access points to the city’s international airport.... Read More

MEXICO | CCE reveals job offerings for returned migrants.... Read More

The head of the joint command of the Honduran armed forces, General Roosevelt Hernández, engaged in an acrimonious dispute with the president of the national electoral council (CNE), Cossette López, in recent days over the primary election debacle on 9 March.... Read More

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Suriname’s political parties submitted their final lists of candidates to the Onafhankelijk Kiesbureau (OKB) independent electoral council by the deadline of 25 March, which is two months before the general election.... Read More

“I think Milei is nostalgic for Mussolini.... Read More