Weekly Report - 25 January 2018 (WR-18-03)

Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro is calling snap elections eight months ahead of schedule.... Read More

Colombia’s main political parties are seeking to thin out the crowded field by forging new electoral alliances ahead of presidential elections on 27 May.... Read More

President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski might have expected a brief respite this week as Pope Francis carried out a three-day visit to Peru.... Read More

ECUADOR | Bond issue.... Read More

Judges at a Brazilian appeals court (TRF-4) voted unanimously on 24 January to uphold the conviction against former president Lula da Silva (2003-2011) from the leftist Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) for corruption and money laundering.... Read More

His “worst overseas visit since his election” in 2013.... Read More

Independent agricultural producers, describing themselves as ‘autoconvocados’, have staged a mass demonstration calling for the government led by President Tabaré Vázquez to provide economic assistance for the agricultural sector.... Read More

BRAZIL | Record homicides.... Read More

After a bright start to his term in office in 2012, President Enrique Peña Nieto looks like leaving under a dark cloud in December this year.... Read More

President Jimmy Morales last week marked the end of the first two years of his four-year mandate with a state-of-the-nation address.... Read More

The process to select a successor to President Raúl Castro moved a step closer on 21 January when Cuba’s 168 municipal assemblies of popular power nominated the candidates to fill the 612-seat national assembly.... Read More

Final opinion surveys indicate that Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno should comfortably win approval for all seven questions put to voters in a national referendum on 4 February.... Read More

“It is the right decision.... Read More