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Weekly Report - 21 September 2017 (WR-17-37)
Leader
After months of being browbeaten, the government led by Peru’s President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski stood up to the main opposition Fuerza Popular (FP).... Read More
Andean
President Juan Manuel Santos gave his final speech before the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on 19 September.... Read More
President Lenín Moreno has announced a referendum on constitutional reform that will look to unpick some of the reforms introduced by his predecessor-turned-nemesis Rafael Correa (2007-2017).... Read More
The National Office of Public Credit, overseen by the finance ministry, said on 20 September that the Venezuelan government had transferred funds for a payment due on its 2027 sovereign bond.... Read More
Brazil & Southern Cone
Brazil’s attorney general’s office (PGR) has a new leader.... Read More
Paraguay’s two main opposition parties have buried their differences to strike an alliance to try and defeat the ruling Asociación Nacional Republicana-Partido Colorado (ANR-PC) in presidential and congressional elections in April 2018.... Read More
Argentines were treated to an unusual event on 14 September: a televised interview with former president Cristina Fernández (2007-2015), who is running for a seat in the federal senate representing the province of Buenos Aires in mid-term elections on 22 October.... Read More
Mexico & Nafta
The governor of Mexico City (CDMX), Miguel Angel Mancera, presented his fifth annual address (‘Informe’) to the CDMX legislative assembly on 17 September.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
The Organization of American States (OAS) this week confirmed that it would be sending a mission to ‘accompany’ the 5 November municipal elections.... Read More
President Jovenel Moïse is facing the most serious unrest since his Parti Haïtien Tèt Kale (PHTK) government took office last February.... Read More
Postscript
Uruguay’s President Tabaré Vázquez elected to proceed on 16 September with a scheduled trip to the US and appearance before the annual United Nations General Assembly.... Read More
“It is time to accept – with realism – that while there is demand there will be supply, and that the demand is not going to end.... Read More
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- Political brinkmanship in Peru backfires
- COLOMBIA: Santos resolute against decertification threat
- ECUADOR: Moreno looks for control
- VENEZUELA: Working to stay afloat
- BRAZIL: All change at the attorney general’s office
- PARAGUAY: Opposition forges electoral alliance
- ARGENTINA: Fernández leaves comfort zone in electoral quest
- MEXICO: Mancera uses fifth Informe to set 2018 stall out
- NICARAGUA: OAS to ‘accompany’ municipal vote
- HAITI: Moïse faces more unrest
- Vázquez leaves Topolansky in charge in Uruguay
- United Nations General Assembly