Weekly Report - 22 September 2016 (WR-16-37)

The prize for which Venezuela’s late former president Hugo Chávez (1999-2013) strove so hard could soon be taken away from the country.... Read More

As we went to press, the national electoral council (CNE) announced procedural details for the second stage of the presidential recall referendum petitioned by the opposition Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD).... Read More

A congressional deputy for the main opposition Fujimorista Fuerza Popular (FP), Yeni Vilcatoma, has defected.... Read More

Former president Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010) invited President Juan Manuel Santos this week to debate the peace accord struck between his government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc).... Read More

COLOMBIA-BOLIVIA | Falling foreign investment.... Read More

More than 10 years after former president Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007) gave the International Monetary Fund (IMF) the kiss off after blaming it for Argentina’s woes, an IMF mission is back in the country.... Read More

Brazilian President Michel Temer opened the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on 19 September, following a 71-year-old tradition.... Read More

President Enrique Peña Nieto came under fire this week for a highly controversial appointment.... Read More

MEXICO | Pemex’s cost-cutting plan comes under question.... Read More

With barely six weeks until general elections on 6 November, Pedro Reyes, the presidential candidate for the main opposition Partido Liberal Independiente (PLI), has pulled out of the race.... Read More

Over 620 senior police officials and agents have been separated from their posts since the government led by President Juan Orlando Hernández instigated the latest police purge in April, in response to serious corruption and criminality allegations against the force.... Read More

President Jimmy Morales’ 2015 campaign pledge to address corruption is coming under unprecedented scrutiny.... Read More

Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri held talks with the British prime minister Theresa May on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly this week.... Read More

“A year ago, standing here before you, I said I expected to come back in 2016 as the President of a Colombia in peace, a reconciled Colombia…I come back today…to announce, with all the strength of my voice and of my heart: the war in Colombia has ended.”... Read More

“A year ago, standing here before you, I said I expected to come back in 2016 as the President of a Colombia in peace, a reconciled Colombia…I come back today…to announce, with all the strength of my voice and of my heart: the war in Colombia has ended.”... Read More