Weekly Report - 18 September 2025 (WR-25-37)

Former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023) has become the third president in Brazil’s post-dictatorship period to be sentenced to prison, and the first to be convicted for plotting a coup d’état to stay in power after losing an election [WR-25-36].... Read More

Relations between the White House and President Gustavo Petro’s government in Colombia reached a new low on 15 September, when the US government formally accused the country of being non-cooperative in the fight against drug trafficking.... Read More

After pushing draconian austerity measures for nearly half of his mandate, Argentina’s President Javier Milei has promised some relief for next year.... Read More

Chile’s eight presidential candidates took part in the first televised presidential debate on 10 September.... Read More

Authorities in Paraguay have arrested Hernán Bermúdez, the former public security minister of Mexico’s Tabasco state who is accused of leading the criminal group La Barredora.... Read More

President Claudia Sheinbaum has said her government will review regulations surrounding the transportation of hazardous materials following the deadly explosion of a gas tanker truck in Mexico City (CDMX) on 10 September.... Read More

The US Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs announced a reward offer on 16 September of up to US$5m for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Juan José Ponce Félix, also known as ‘El Ruso’, who it said was an alleged leader of the Cártel de Sinaloa and wanted for violating US narcotics laws.... Read More

MEXICO | US makes good on aviation threat.... Read More

“The Republic will stay on its feet and the gangs will fall,” the Haitian government said in a statement on 15 September following the massacre of more than 40 people in a fishing village north of the capital Port-au-Prince days earlier.... Read More

The president of El Salvador’s right-wing opposition Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Arena), Carlos García Saade, released a video on social media on 17 September expressing his conviction that his party is ready to contest elections in 2027.... Read More

This week Cuba’s defence minister, General Álvaro López Miera, met his Chinese peer Admiral Dong Jun in Beijing where he was attending the 12th Beijing Xiangshan Forum, a high-level security and defence forum.... Read More

The administrator of the Panama Canal, Ricaurte Vásquez, presented the strategic plan of the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) for the next 10 years on 16 September.... Read More

CUBA | The cost of the US embargo.... Read More

US President Donald Trump announced on 15 September that the US had carried out a second military strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug trafficking boat, killing three “terrorists”.... Read More

“A single line of thought only exists in dictatorships.... Read More