Weekly Report - 02 July 2026 (WR-26-26)

With the death toll climbing steeply in the wake of the twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela on 24 June, attention is shifting towards the long-term ramifications for a country that until last week was beginning to see some light at the end of the tunnel.... Read More

On 29 June the minister for government in Ecuador’s right-wing administration of President Daniel Noboa dismissed the attempt to shorten his term in office through convening a recall referendum.... Read More

The saga that has dominated Argentine politics for five months came to an abrupt end on 27 June as Manuel Adorni announced his resignation as cabinet chief.... Read More

Brazil’s former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro, the wife of former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023), posted a video on 24 June criticising her stepson, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, who is expected to be the main right-wing contender in the presidential election in October.... Read More

The Brazilian government unveiled the latest iteration of its ‘Plano Safra’ (Harvest Plan) annual agriculture investment programme on 30 June.... Read More

An attempt to impeach Chile’s former finance minister Nicolás Grau has been thrown out by the senate in what some describe as possibly the most serious political defeat for President José Antonio Kast since he took office in March.... Read More

BRAZIL | Job creation slows.... Read More

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has vehemently rejected claims made in a New York Times (NYT) article that officials from her ruling left-wing Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) are working as informants for the US government.... Read More

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has vowed zero impunity and called for the full weight of the law to be applied after videos emerged appearing to show the former CEO of state-run oil firm Pemex, Víctor Rodríguez Padilla, violently abusing his wife.... Read More

MEXICO | US declines to extend USMCA.... Read More

Honduras’ former president Juan Orlando Hernández (2014-2022) of the ruling Partido Nacional (PN), who walked free late last year from his 45-year prison sentence in the US on drug-related changes after being pardoned by US President Donald Trump [WR-25-48], is preparing to return to Honduras from the US, where he has remained since being absolved.... Read More

Last week the interim director of Costa Rica’s judicial investigation agency (OIJ), Michael Soto, announced that the authorities had carried out an anti-drug and money laundering operation ‘Riverside’, which he described as the most significant operation conducted by the OIJ in coordination with the attorney general’s office (MP) and other authorities, in the country’s history.... Read More

REGION | FDI to Central America falls slightly.... Read More

Colombia’s President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella has announced his choices for the interior and finance ministries.... Read More

  “It is a war that no country can, nor should, fight alone.... Read More