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Weekly Report - 22 December 2016 (WR-16-50)

Leader
Last week, Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri had been on the brink of a humiliating defeat over an opposition bill proposing changes to the ‘impuesto a las ganancias’ payroll tax.... Read More
Brazil & Southern Cone
2016 was a crisis-fuelled year for Brazil.... Read More
With less than a year to go until general elections in November 2017, potential candidates from both the ruling Nueva Mayoría leftist coalition and opposition Chile Vamos coalition are throwing their hats into the ring.... Read More
Andean
President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski held a one-hour meeting with the leader of the main opposition Fuerza Popular (FP), Keiko Fujimori, at the residence of the Catholic Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, on 19 December.... Read More
At the end of last week, the ruling Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) formally declared President Evo Morales as its presidential candidate ahead of general elections in 2019.... Read More
President Nicolás Maduro’s Christmas message from the Miraflores palace suggests that he lives in deep isolation from the rest of Venezuela.... Read More
“Peace is constructed, as I told his Holiness, like a cathedral, brick by brick,” Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos said on 16 December.... Read More
ECUADOR | Trade agreement approved with EU.... Read More
Mexico & Nafta
The new governor of the state of Veracruz, Miguel Ángel Yunes, continues to struggle with a local funding crisis caused by the wholesale asset stripping carried out by his predecessor, Javier Duarte.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
The problem of child migrants on the Mexico-US border has not gone away.... Read More
NICARAGUA | Homicides down.... Read More
Postscript
Earlier this month Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega and top officials from his Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) government hosted Russia’s deputy prime minister, Dmitri Rogozin.... Read More
“I learnt a lesson: never submit anything to a referendum that you don’t need to.”... Read More

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