Weekly Report - 21 June 2018 (WR-18-24)

Iván Duque will become Colombia’s 33rd president on 7 August.... Read More

Diosdado Cabello is back in a starring role in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution.... Read More

Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri performed political surgery this week in a bid to arrest the unrelenting depreciation of the peso.... Read More

Interest groups normally lobby presidential hopefuls ahead of elections.... Read More

Widespread protests against insecurity have broken out in recent weeks across Uruguay.... Read More

After being formally accused of corruption, Ricardo Anaya, the presidential candidate of Mexico’s Right-Left Por México al Frente opposition coalition, has lashed out against his two main rivals ahead of presidential elections on 1 July.... Read More

MEXICO | New oil concessions up for tender.... Read More

Masaya city, the capital of the eponymous department and historically a bastion of support for the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN), this week declared that it no longer recognised the leadership of President Daniel Ortega.... Read More

The governments of Panama and China last week officially launched negotiations in Beijing for a free trade agreement (FTA), a year after the two forged diplomatic ties, following Panama’s decision to break with Taiwan.... Read More

President Juan Orlando Hernández and the ruling Partido Nacional (PN) are on the defensive over alleged corruption.... Read More

Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno presented a defence, security, and development plan for the country’s northern border provinces on 18 June.... Read More

“Our objective is not to reach the presidency; the objective is the transformation of Colombia.”... Read More