Weekly Report - 09 August 2018 (WR-18-31)

Two loud explosions were heard during a military parade attended by Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas on 4 August to mark the 81st anniversary of the national guard.... Read More

Iván Duque was inaugurated as Colombia’s new head of state on 7 August.... Read More

PERU | Adjusting growth predictions.... Read More

A corruption scandal broke over the course of the last week that could put paid to any hope former president Cristina Fernández (2007-2015) has of seeking a third term in office in October 2019.... Read More

The party conference season came to an end last Sunday (5 August).... Read More

Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador was heckled during the opening on 7 August of the first of a series of nationwide consultative forums being organised by his Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) to help formulate his incoming government’s public security strategy.... Read More

Mexico’s leftist president-elect, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, was viewed with suspicion by much of the country’s private sector during the election campaign, but the relationship had been warming up since his resounding electoral victory on 1 July.... Read More

The Cuban government has modified its laws and simplified the approval process for investment projects.... Read More

In a decision hailed as “unprecedented” by José Miguel Vivanco, the Americas director for the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW), the permanent council of the Organization of American States (OAS) has approved a resolution to create a working group on Nicaragua to “contribute to peaceful and sustainable solutions”.... Read More

Costa Rica’s supreme court (CSJ) president Carlos Chinchilla has become the latest casualty of the so-called ‘Cementazo’ scandal (involving Sinocem Costa Rica, the Costa Rican subsidiary of a Chinese cement exporter, and top public officials) which rocked the country last year.... Read More

Religious conviction trumped women’s rights in Argentina’s senate on 8 August as a bill legalising abortion up to14 weeks after conception was rejected.... Read More

“Don’t worry.... Read More