Weekly Report - 11 June 2026 (WR-26-23)

After narrowly losing three consecutive presidential run-off elections in Peru, Keiko Fujimori might have won at the fourth opportunity on 7 June by the closest margin of all, with the result confirming the country’s deep polarisation.... Read More

The dramatic announcement on 10 June that Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro was being suspended from office seems to have been wildly premature.... Read More

Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa has once again taken a scalpel to the machinery of government, slashing the number of ministries from 14 to 10 after previously reducing them from 20 to 14 in July 2025 [WR-25-30].... Read More

Having previously approved legislation which delivered sweeping changes to Venezuela’s oil and mining sectors, the national assembly has turned its attention to the blackout-prone electricity system.... Read More

The government led by the left-wing Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), as well as right-wing opposition figures such as Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (Partido Liberal, PL), have recently ramped up their efforts to appeal to evangelical Christians ahead of Brazil’s general elections in October.... Read More

The head of the superior electoral court (TSE), Kássio Nunes Marques, has ordered the suspension of a survey published on 19 May by polling firm AtlasIntel which showed President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ahead of his main right-wing rival in the presidential race, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (Partido Liberal, PL).... Read More

Paraguay’s former president Horacio Cartes (2013-2018) received a big boost this week as he completes his convalescence from heart surgery in February after his faction of the ruling Asociación Nacional Republicana-Partido Colorado (ANR-PC) swept the party primaries to select candidates to compete in October’s municipal elections.... Read More

Chile’s left-wing opposition Partido Socialista (PS) and Frente Amplio (FA) accused the far-right government led by President José Antonio Kast of championing a heavy-handed approach to policing of protests after a march convened by the main national student union Confederación de Estudiantes de Chile (Confech), resulted in at least 35 arrests and multiple injuries.... Read More

The past eight years have not been kind to Mexico’s centrist opposition Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI).... Read More

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has paid a visit to the Guantánamo US naval base in south-eastern Cuba, in what is the latest sign of pressure by the US administration led by President Donald Trump on Havana to make economic and political changes.... Read More

The recent death in custody of Brooklyn Rivera, a 73-year-old Miskito indigenous leader, who had been detained since September 2023 on charges widely considered spurious [WR-23-41], has sparked outrage, both domestically and abroad.... Read More

Could Argentina’s former right-of-centre president Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) seek a second term in presidential elections due next year? There are some early signs that he is on manoeuvres.... Read More

“We will not allow the historic will of the forgotten majorities to be erased behind closed doors in the capital.... Read More