Weekly Report - 29 January 2026 (WR-26-04)

With days to go until the 7 February deadline for the mandate of Haiti’s transitional presidential council (CPT) to end, the nine-member body has sparked international condemnation over its decision to eject Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé.... Read More

A fractious session of the US senate foreign relations committee saw Secretary of State Marco Rubio grilled on Washington’s plan for Venezuela following the military raid to capture former president Nicolás Maduro (2013-2026) at the start of the year.... Read More

Peru’s President José Jerí is battling to remain in his post just a few months after he replaced the impeached Dina Boluarte (2002-2025) amid a scandal surrounding leaked videos of ‘off agenda’ meetings he held with a Chinese businessman Zhihua Yang on 26 December and 6 January.... Read More

Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa announced on 21 January that Colombian imports would face a 30% ‘security tax’ due to the country’s alleged failure to combat crime along the border.... Read More

Chile’s President-elect José Antonio Kast unveiled his cabinet last week ahead of his investiture on 11 March.... Read More

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had a phone call with his US counterpart Donald Trump on 26 January.... Read More

Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the federal capital, Brasília, on 25 January to express support for former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023) who was convicted in September last year for plotting a coup to stay in power after losing the 2022 election and began serving his prison sentence in November.... Read More

BRAZIL | Central bank holds interest rates again.... Read More

A massacre following a local football match in Guanajuato has once again shone a light on the insecurity crisis facing the state, which consistently ranks as Mexico’s most deadly.... Read More

Mexico’s supreme court (SCJN) announced on 25 January that it would return recently purchased armoured security trucks, which have been the subject of much controversy in recent days.... Read More

Former Tegucigalpa mayor (2014-2022), Nasry Asfura, of the right-wing Partido Nacional (PN), has been sworn in as Honduras’s new president for a four-year term.... Read More

The biggest question surrounding Costa Rica’s presidential elections is whether Laura Fernández will win in the first round on 1 February or be required to contest a run-off.... Read More

Argentina’s President Javier Milei will soon face the first serious challenge since his victory in last October’s mid-term congressional elections.... Read More

“Everyone is looking for a Haitian solution to the crisis, but when we start to find a Haitian solution to the crisis, the international community comes in with all its claws.”... Read More