Weekly Report - 28 August 2025 (WR-25-34)

For another week the governments of Venezuela and the US have traded mutual insults and made threatening troop movements.... Read More

The political change that is sweeping Bolivia may now be having an impact on the country’s judiciary.... Read More

Journalists in Peru were summoned to the government palace in Lima at short notice on 23 August to be told of a cabinet reshuffle affecting three ministries.... Read More

Colombia suffered perhaps its worst day of guerrilla violence this decade on 21 August.... Read More

Argentina’s President Javier Milei, dedicated to taking a chainsaw to public spending and to cleansing Argentina’s corrupt “political caste”, is suddenly facing a major corruption scandal, with only weeks to go before critical elections.... Read More

The promotion of pan-Latin American cooperation and integration has been a pillar of Brazilian foreign policy under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.... Read More

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva held a cabinet meeting on 26 August in which he said that any cabinet minister not willing to defend the government should resign.... Read More

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BRAZIL | Current account deficit widens in July.... Read More

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said this week that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Mexico in the first week of September, to conclude negotiations on a new bilateral security treaty.... Read More

MEXICO | Amador highlights big challenges ahead.... Read More

Voters in Guyana will go to the polls on 1 September to elect a new government.... Read More

HONDURAS | Coffee exports up.... Read More

Ecuador’s national assembly approved a government bill on 26 August that tightens regulation of NGOs operating in the country, in response to claims by President Daniel Noboa that they are a destabilising influence.... Read More

“They threaten us because they think that with intimidation they can achieve what they have not achieved through votes.”... Read More