Weekly Report - 19 July 2018 (WR-18-28)

Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador went on holiday this week to recuperate after an arduous electoral campaign, but not before providing details of initiatives he insists will produce the most sweeping change to the country since the Revolution a century ago.... Read More

The tentacles of Peru’s judicial scandal are spreading into different spheres of public life.... Read More

Due to assume office on 7 August, Colombia’s President-elect Iván Duque is slowly revealing the names of his cabinet appointments.... Read More

President Nicolás Maduro has announced the creation of a new ‘mission’ to guarantee citizen security in Venezuela.... Read More

“We are facing a storm, but we have managed to raise our sails and stay the course.... Read More

The centre-left presidential hopeful Ciro Gomes said on 17 July that, if elected, he would stop the planned US$4.75bn joint venture between US aviation giant Boeing and Brazil’s Embraer.... Read More

Recent rulings in relation to two high-profile corruption cases involving illegal campaign finance, which broke under the previous Nueva Mayoría coalition government led by former president Michelle Bachelet (2006-2010; 2014-2018), are again causing discomfort for politicians of all political stripes.... Read More

Protest votes do not always solve the problem that the voters want fixed.... Read More

The foreign community is stepping up its rhetoric against the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) administration led by President Daniel Ortega in response to the ongoing crackdown on protesters, carried out by the national police (PNN) and pro-government paramilitaries, which began mid-April and has left 351 people dead on the latest (11 July) figures from local human rights NGO ANPDH.... Read More

The decision by the Parti Haïtien Tèt Kale (PHTK) government led by President Jovenel Moïse to increase fuel prices has sparked the biggest crisis since he took office in February 2017.... Read More

The constitutional chamber of the supreme court ordered the supreme electoral tribunal (TSE) last week to cancel the legal registration of two small left-wing parties, the Partido Social Demócrata (PSD) and Cambio Democrático (CD).... Read More

Ecuador’s fourth branch of government is wielding a giant axe as it sets about decapitating the country’s principal judicial and institutional bodies.... Read More

“No more politicking, no old style traditional politics….... Read More