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Weekly Report - 26 July 2018 (WR-18-29)

Leader
Party conference season is underway in Brazil (it will run to 5 August) and this year it is all about nominating presidential candidates for the elections due on 7 October.... Read More
Andean
The crisis in Peru’s judiciary has continued, with congress dismissing members of the national magistrates council (Concejo Nacional de la Magistratura, CNM) implicated in the corruption scandal triggered by the release of incriminating audio tapes.... Read More
In an unexpected move influential hard-right former president Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010) announced on 24 July that he was resigning from his senate seat so as to face a widened set of charges brought against him by the supreme court, which now include accusations of bribery.... Read More
PERU | Lithium discovery.... Read More
Region
The Pacific Alliance countries (Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Mexico) held a summit meeting on 23 and 24 July in Puerto Vallarta in Mexico, to which the leaders of the Mercosur bloc (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) were invited.... Read More
Brazil & Southern Cone
Already on the defensive because of a troubled economy, President Mauricio Macri has walked into a new dispute over proposed changes in the role of the armed forces.... Read More
CHILE | FDI recovery.... Read More
Mexico & Nafta
After unveiling his general government plan last week [WR-18-28], this week Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador outlined the priority economic initiatives that his future administration will seek to pursue as soon as it assumes office in December.... Read More
MEXICO | Biva.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
“Allies of coup mongers.” This is how President Daniel Ortega referred to Nicaragua’s Catholic Church in a speech held to mark the 19 July anniversary of the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship (1936-1979) which singled out the Church for particular criticism.... Read More
The Organization of American States (OAS)-sponsored Mission to Support the Fight against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (Maccih) and US embassy in Tegucigalpa this week hailed progress with regard to the high-profile “Pandora Case” – a major corruption investigation unveiled last month which implicates the ruling Partido Nacional (PN) of President Juan Orlando Hernández and traditional opposition Partido Liberal (PL) [WR-18-24].... Read More
Postscript
One of the parties in the Juntos Haremos Historia (JHH) coalition which carried Mexico’s leftist presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador to power on 1 July is struggling for political survival.... Read More
“I thought they were mediators, but no, they are committed to the coup mongers.... Read More

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