Weekly Report - 23 April 2015 (WR-15-16)

Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos is resisting intense pressure to suspend the peace process with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc).... Read More

The national assembly (AN) approved new population data on 22 April prepared by the national statistics institute (INE) for this year’s pending legislative elections, which the national electoral council (CNE) will now use to draw up the 2015 electoral districts.... Read More

Bolivia’s national electoral court (TSE) has cancelled the 3 May run-off for the gubernatorial election in Chuquisaca department after declaring Esteban Urquizu, the candidate of President Evo Morales’ Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), as the outright winner of the first round of the election on 29 March.... Read More

BOLIVIA| Adapting to climate change... Read More

The Argentine provinces of Santa Fe and Mendoza held their open and simultaneous primaries (Paso) on 19 April.... Read More

On 24 April, a small group of activists from the Movimento do Brasil Livre (MBL), one of the main groups organising the recent street protests in Brazil, will begin a long march, on foot, from São Paulo to Brasília.... Read More

There was another reminder of the weakness of the ruling Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) this week.... Read More

REGION | Pooling efforts to fight climate change, agricultural pests... Read More

The issue of human rights abuses committed by Mexico’s security forces has been deeply contentious for some time but it has burst to the fore over the course of the last week.... Read More

MEXICO | Impact of drug-related violence... Read More

The findings of one of the biggest investigations by the United Nations (UN) backed anti-impunity commission in Guatemala (Cicig) and the attorney general’s office (AG) into official corruption is wreaking major damage on President Otto Pérez Molina’s right-wing Partido Patriota (PP).... Read More

President Luis Guillermo Solís has dismissed his minister of the presidency, Melvin Jiménez, just under a year after he took office.... Read More

The governor of New York state, Andrew M.... Read More

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa cut short a visit to Tabacundo, 60km north of Quito in the province of Pichincha, on 14 April after receiving a death threat.... Read More

“The easiest decision today is to say war, war and more war.... Read More