Weekly Report - 26 April 2018 (WR-18-16)

Miguel Díaz-Canel was appointed as the new president of Cuba by the 605-seat national assembly on 19 April.... Read More

President Daniel Ortega is facing the biggest crisis since his Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) government took office in 2007.... Read More

Germán Vargas Lleras is yet to make any impression on Colombia’s numerous opinion polls (with one exception) with a little over a month to go until presidential elections.... Read More

Campaigning formally began in Venezuela on 22 April, four weeks before the presidential elections.... Read More

Paraguay’s ruling centre-right Asociación Nacional Republicana-Partido Colorado (ANR-PC) secured a second consecutive term in office in presidential elections on 22 April.... Read More

There is no shortage of candidates running in October’s general election.... Read More

The government led by President Mauricio Macri has once again agreed to adjust its economic stabilisation plans to ease the social discontent they have been producing.... Read More

This week thousands of migrants gathered in the Víctor Jara stadium in Chile’s capital, Santiago, to begin the process of regularising their documentation.... Read More

There was no doubt who won the first televised debate of Mexico’s presidential campaign on 22 April.... Read More

One month on from assuming the presidency of Peru from Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, Martín Vizcarra’s primary achievement is that this period has been quiet and uneventful, with nothing for the media to sink their teeth into.... Read More

“More than half a century of slander and dark invitations to generational rupture and discouragement in the face of difficulties have not been able to tear down the columns of the temple of our faith: the Revolution of Fidel…continues in its 60th year with the dignity of its founders intact and ennobled by having been able to do in each moment what each moment demanded.”... Read More