Weekly Report - 23 August 2018 (WR-18-33)

Even by Venezuela’s recent standards, this has been an exceptionally challenging week both for the beleaguered public and the government led by President Nicolás Maduro.... Read More

It would be wrong to say that serious tensions have broken out between President Iván Duque and his mentor former president Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010).... Read More

Although risky, the decision by Peru’s President Martín Vizcarra to submit major reforms of both the judiciary and the legislature to a national referendum may be paying off.... Read More

ECUADOR | Belt-tightening measures rolled out.... Read More

Mario Abdo Benítez was inaugurated as Paraguay’s new president on 15 August.... Read More

Argentina’s federal senate voted unanimously on 22 August to allow the three homes belonging to former president Cristina Fernández (2007-2015) to be searched as part of investigations into the so-called ‘Gloriagate’ corruption scandal.... Read More

Whoever wins Brazil’s presidential elections in October is likely to have a difficult relationship with the federal congress, a new report suggests.... Read More

Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera announced his government’s intention this week to create a ‘museum of democracy’.... Read More

Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto recently said that the biggest achievement of his presidency was the approval of his proposed structural economic reforms.... Read More

MEXICO | Food exports.... Read More

China took another step this week towards supplanting Taiwan in Central America.... Read More

Dominican President Danilo Medina reached the midpoint of his second four-year term on 16 August.... Read More

President Evo Morales has become the longest serving head of state in Bolivia’s history.... Read More

“Slowly, slowly, we will implement the new policy and once you understand it, you will like it.”... Read More