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Weekly Report - 19 April 2018 (WR-18-15)
Leader
The two-day Summit of the Americas (SOA), hosted by Peru on 13 and 14 April, resulted in the ‘Lima Commitment’, a 57-point statement on combating corruption and strengthening democracy.... Read More
Andean
The governments of Colombia and Ecuador are mounting an offensive against dissidents from the demobilised Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) operating on the shared border, but the level of security cooperation appears to be the cause of some bilateral diplomatic tensions.... Read More
BOLIVIA | LPG to Argentina.... Read More
Brazil & Southern Cone
President Michel Temer has been forced to replace half of his cabinet.... Read More
With six months to go, there is still no clear favourite to win Brazil’s presidential elections.... Read More
Argentine trade unions, civil-society groups, and even small business organisations have renewed their mobilisations in rejection of the ‘economic adjustment’ being implemented by the government led by President Mauricio Macri.... Read More
BRAZIL | Indigence increasing.... Read More
Mexico & Nafta
Days before the first presidential debate takes place on 22 April, the frontrunner in the race, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has been drawn into a separate debate with a different protagonist.... Read More
Mexico’s combative Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE) teachers’ union has made plain its feelings about José Antonio Meade, the presidential candidate of the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI).... Read More
MEXICO | New special economic zones.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Hopes that the United Nations-brokered dialogue would produce a solution to the post-electoral crisis in Honduras following last November’s presidential election [WR-18-11] have proven short-lived.... Read More
Guatemala has voted overwhelmingly to ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague to rule on the country’s long-running territorial dispute with Belize.... Read More
EL SALVADOR | ‘Plan 10’.... Read More
Postscript
The Dominican domino could be the next to drop in the Caribbean after Costa Rica and Panama switched allegiance from Taiwan to China in recent years.... Read More
“The greatest corruption of government is when the people lose their voice, their vote, their freedom, and their basic human rights under the heavy hand of dictatorship.” ... Read More
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