Weekly Report - 01 May 2025 (WR-25-17)

Chile’s moderate left-wing parties closed ranks behind Carolina Tohá this week ahead of primary elections on 29 June.... Read More

Peru’s government said on 25 April that it had broken up two illegal mining operations in the province of Pataz in the northern region of La Libertad.... Read More

Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales (2006-2019), accused by prosecutors of human trafficking in relation to an alleged relationship with a teenage girl [WR-25-02], has spent the last seven months hunkering down in Chapare, the home of his coca union in Cochabamba department.... Read More

A string of attacks on the Colombian security forces continued this week, with President Gustavo Petro lamenting on 29 April that 27 soldiers and police officers had been killed over the past two weeks.... Read More

The official campaign for Venezuela’s regional and congressional elections began on 29 April.... Read More

A high-level Ecuadorean delegation travelled to El Salvador on 29 April for a tour of the ‘Terrorism Containment Centre’ (Cecot) – the controversial 40,000-capacity mega-prison that is underpinning President Nayib Bukele’s fierce crackdown on gangs.... Read More

Argentina’s main opposition Partido Justicialista (PJ, Peronist) has accused the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, of undue intervention in favour of President Javier Milei ahead of mid-term legislative elections in October.... Read More

Brazilian authorities have launched an investigation into an alleged corruption scheme in 2019-2024 involving the national social security agency (INSS), in which an estimated R$6.3bn (US$1.1bn) was improperly diverted from pensions and retirement funds.... Read More

Right-wing former president Fernando Collor de Mello (1990-1992) was arrested on 25 April.... Read More

BRAZIL | Government posts monthly surplus.... Read More

Mexico’s government led by President Claudia Sheinbaum reached two key agriculture-related agreements with the US on 28 April.... Read More

Mexico’s ruling left-wing Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) has abandoned plans to fast-track a new telecommunications bill through congress amid censorship concerns.... Read More

“The last Panamanian that dared to defy the US, taking to the podium with a machete and provocative declarations, did not get on very well, nor did the country,” Panama’s foreign minister Javier Martínez-Acha said during an appearance before the national assembly on 29 April.... Read More

Luis Pacheco, an indigenous leader and deputy minister for sustainable development in the government of Guatemala’s President Bernardo Arévalo, was arrested at dawn on 23 April on the orders of the attorney general, María Consuelo Porras.... Read More

Stuart Young did not last long as prime minister of Trinidad & Tobago.... Read More

Dominican President Luis Abinader rebuffed criticism of his government this week over its deportation of Haitians.... Read More

“The progressive left can only defeat the far-right through profound reflection, concrete proposals, and a great party mobilisation.” ... Read More