Weekly Report - 25 June 2026 (WR-26-25)

Abelardo de la Espriella won the second round of Colombia’s presidential elections on 21 June.... Read More

Two powerful earthquakes hit northern Venezuela on 24 June, devastating the coastal state of La Guaira and potentially causing tens of thousands of deaths.... Read More

Roberto Sánchez can no longer overhaul Keiko Fujimori to win Peru’s presidential elections.... Read More

Bolivia’s President Rodrigo Paz caved in to weeks of pressure on 20 June when he declared a state of exception which allowed him to deploy the army to clear the roadblocks which have ground the country to a halt since mid-May.... Read More

Senator Jaques Wagner, of Brazil’s ruling left-wing Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), announced on 24 June that he will step away from his role as the governing coalition’s leader in the senate.... Read More

Argentina’s President Javier Milei is sticking by his cabinet chief, Manuel Adorni, amid a mushrooming illicit enrichment scandal.... Read More

BRAZIL | Central bank expresses uncertainty over interest rates.... Read More

Since taking office in October 2024, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has faced significant pressure over the issue of insecurity.... Read More

Mexico’s former attorney general Alejandro Gertz Manero (2019-2025) has submitted a declaration of assets to the ministry of anticorruption and good governance.... Read More

Hopes in Havana that the far-reaching economic reforms unveiled last week [WR-26-24] would ease the pressure campaign being applied by the US government have failed to materialise.... Read More

Costa Rica’s new President Laura Fernández last week visited the site of the shuttered Las Crucitas open-pit gold mine in San Carlos canton, Alajuela province, near the border with Nicaragua.... Read More

A new agreement signed by representatives of the US and Ecuadorean governments on 22 June, named the ‘Secure Border’ project, has given Washington further involvement in Ecuadorean security, following a previous US military operation in the country in March [WR-26-09].... Read More

“The lion and the tiger are roaring in Latin America…Today the majority of Colombians chose the path of economic freedom, prosperity, and implacable security and said ENOUGH to transnational organised crime and drug trafficking.”... Read More