Weekly Report - 08 May 2025 (WR-25-18)

One moment five Venezuelan opposition leaders were in the residence of the Argentine embassy in Caracas, where they had been confined for the previous 15 months.... Read More

Peru’s prime minister, Gustavo Adrianzén, faces a no confidence motion in congress, relating to his government’s handling of illegal mining in Pataz province in the northern region of La Libertad, where 13 miners have been kidnapped and murdered.... Read More

The 30 April cancellation of an arrest warrant for former president Evo Morales (2006-2019) continues to cause reverberations in Bolivia.... Read More

Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa has struck a deal with the indigenous party Pachakutik that will put him just one vote shy of a majority in the newly expanded 151-seat national assembly.... Read More

Hoisting aloft the sword of Simón Bolívar and the flag associated with his War to the Death decree against the Spanish, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro addressed a large crowd gathered in the Plaza de Bolívar outside congress on International Workers’ Day on 1 May.... Read More

Chile’s President Gabriel Boric was formally presented with the report drawn up by the presidential commission for peace and understanding on 6 May, nearly two years in the making.... Read More

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has replaced two cabinet ministers that the press had been speculating would be dismissed.... Read More

Brazil’s lower chamber of congress has approved a motion to suspend legal proceedings against federal deputy Alexandre Ramagem, of the right-wing Partido Liberal (PL).... Read More

BRAZIL | Industrial production up in March.... Read More

Federal authorities in Mexico have arrested the mayor of Teuchitlán municipality, Jalisco state, as part of an investigation into a cartel training and recruitment site discovered by a local search collective in March [WR-25-10].... Read More

With less than a month until judicial elections are due on 1 June, legislators from the ruling left-wing Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) – the very party that pushed through the reform that established the elections – have requested the cancellation of over 20 candidacies.... Read More

Nicaragua has withdrawn from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco).... Read More

Costa Rica’s President Rodrigo Chaves delivered his third state of the nation speech to congress on 6 May, claiming important policy successes while accusing the political elite of conspiring against him.... Read More

Argentina’s security minister, Patricia Bullrich, has enlisted in the ranks of President Javier Milei’s ruling far-right La Libertad Avanza (LLA) party.... Read More

Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González on the ‘rescue’ of five members of the opposition from the Argentine embassy in Caracas.   “Never before has a government pressured congress with such intensity, replacing dialogue with confrontation.” The president of Colombia’s senate, Efraín Cepeda, a member of the right-of-centre opposition Partido Conservador (PC), responds to the “intimidation” of President Gustavo Petro.    “The enemy is not invisible, the enemy has a name, face, and surname, and can be found in the offices of the judiciary, in some seats in congress, and in some offices where they distribute privileges and positions”. Costa Rica’s President Rodrigo Chaves.... Read More