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Weekly Report - 10 September 2015 (WR-15-36)
A new era for Guatemala?
The resignation of Guatemala’s President Otto Pérez Molina on 3 September amid corruption allegations, three days before the staging of general elections, led to predictions of a new era of accountability and a sign that the notorious impunity afflicting the country would no longer be tolerated. It remains unlikely, however, that the winner of the 25 October presidential run-off between the victor in the first round, the ‘outsider’ and anti-establishment candidate, Jimmy Morales, and his as-yet-undefined rival will be able to live up to these heady expectations.
- A new era for Guatemala?
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Elections produce strange bedfellows
- VENEZUELA-COLOMBIA: Maduro extends the border closures northward
- REGION: Budget season, with austerity the watchword
- BRAZIL: Temer continues to distance himself from Rousseff
- BRAZIL: Sinking faster
- ARGENTINA: Tucumán vote recount raises fears over election
- URUGUAY: Vázquez pulls out of Tisa
- ARGENTINA: Corruption allegations levelled at opposition
- CHILE: Bachelet urged to change tack
- TRACKING TRENDS
- MEXICO: Another turn in the Iguala story
- PNM returns to power in Trinidad & Tobago
- Quotes of the week