Weekly Report - 14 May 2026 (WR-26-19)

A report by US broadcaster CNN released on 10 May, that US military intelligence-gathering flights “are surging off the coast of Cuba”, is fuelling major speculation regarding the intentions of US President Donald Trump, who has previously threatened to “take” the island.... Read More

The second round of Peru’s presidential elections on 7 June will see Keiko Fujimori of the right-wing Fuerza Popular (FP) face off against Roberto Sánchez of the left-wing Juntos por el Perú (JPP), after he built an unassailable lead over the third-placed candidate Rafael López Aliaga, the leader of the far-right Renovación Popular (RP).... Read More

It has long been a demand of the Venezuelan opposition that the country’s leadership should be brought to The Hague to face justice for their alleged role in crimes against humanity.... Read More

Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales (2006-2019) once again threw down the gauntlet to the authorities on 11 May when he failed to appear in court to face charges of human trafficking.... Read More

Hundreds of thousands of students staged a march to Argentina’s iconic Plaza de Mayo outside the presidential palace Casa Rosada on 12 May to demand that the far-right La Libertad Avanza (LLA) government led by President Javier Milei comply with the university financing law approved by congress.... Read More

Tensions between Brazil’s supreme court (STF) and right-wing members of congress have escalated recently.... Read More

Following months of turbulence in US-Brazil diplomatic ties, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva met President Donald Trump in the White House on 7 May.... Read More

Paraguay faces “the enormous challenge” of developing the world’s largest artificial intelligence centre, President Santiago Peña said on 13 May.... Read More

BRAZIL | Trade surplus rises in yearly terms.... Read More

A report by US broadcaster CNN has detonated debate over the extent of involvement of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in security operations in Mexico.... Read More

The conservative regional leader of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, of Spain’s right-wing opposition Partido Popular (PP), cut her recent visit to Mexico short, claiming the government had been threatening her and promoting boycotts of events she was due to attend.... Read More

Haiti’s Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé announced this week that the country was too insecure for the first presidential elections in a decade to be held in August.... Read More

The Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) held on to power in The Bahamas in the general election on 12 May.... Read More

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro announced on 12 May that an air strike on a guerrilla camp in the eastern Catatumbo region was discussed in advance with the Venezuelan government.... Read More

“There isn’t the least reason, not even the least pretext for a superpower such as the United States, to launch a military attack against a small island that does not pose any threat, only because it is the mere aspiration of a few to change its political system or its government.”... Read More