Weekly Report - 20 April 2017 (WR-17-15)

“Same time, same place.... Read More

The United Nations (UN) peace verification mission in Colombia has reported that it has “practically concluded” the process of registering the firearms held by members of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrilla group that have adhered to the group’s formal demobilisation process.... Read More

A second arrest order has been issued for US-based former president Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006) while former president Ollanta Humala (2011-2016) and his wife, Nadine Heredia, continue under investigation.... Read More

Ecuador’s national electoral council (CNE) has formally declared Lenín Moreno of the ruling Alianza País (AP) party the country’s new president-elect, after concluding a partial recount of the votes cast in the 2 April presidential run-off election.... Read More

BOLIVIA | Booming growth.... Read More

Brazil’s supreme court (STF) has lifted the lid on the Pandora’s box of Brazilian politics.... Read More

A decision by Chile’s tax authority – Servicio de Impuestos Internos (SII) – to close some investigations into corporate tax fraud connected to illicit party political contributions has been criticised as being part of a cover-up, a charge which the SII denies.... Read More

CHILE | Impact of Escondida strike.... Read More

For around five minutes the portly man detained in a corridor near the lobby of the La Riviera hotel in the tourist resort of Lake Atitlán in Guatemala denied his identity, but eventually admitted “Yes, gentlemen, I am Javier Duarte”.... Read More

MEXICO | Repatriation of assets.... Read More

The recent decisions by Panama’s supreme court (CSJ) to shelve three criminal complaints filed against the president of the 71-member unicameral national legislature, Rubén De León of the opposition Partido Revolucionario Democrático (PRD) party, and other national legislators, is serving as the latest source of outrage among local civil-society groups.... Read More

After meeting Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri the combative Elisa Carrió, a federal deputy and member of the ruling centre-right Cambiemos coalition, has confirmed that she will stand in the city of Buenos Aires in next October’s mid-term congressional elections.... Read More

“If I am re-elected [in the November general elections]...I will not seek a further presidential term.”... Read More