Weekly Report - 30 August 2018 (WR-18-34)

It often looked improbable.... Read More

MEXICO | Alternative airport proposal.... Read More

Technically speaking, the campaign to secure a popular mandate, via referendum, for seven anti-corruption measures in Colombia was a failure.... Read More

Keiko Fujimori, leader of the right-wing opposition Fuerza Popular (FP), the largest party in Peru’s congress, appears to be ending the period of (relatively) peaceful coexistence with the government led by President Martín Vizcarra, who took office nearly six months ago.... Read More

According to Luis Almagro, the general secretary of the Organization of American States (OAS), the stream of Venezuelans fleeing their country could turn out to be “the greatest exodus in the history of the Western Hemisphere”.... Read More

VENEZUELA | International bank transfers restricted.... Read More

Brazil’s President Michel Temer signed a decree on 28 August authorising the deployment of the armed forces along the Venezuelan border in the northern state of Roraima.... Read More

It was not a good week for Argentina’s top two political protagonists.... Read More

Chile’s supreme court began hearings this week to consider a request for the dismissal of national prosecutor Jorge Abbott, formally accused of negligence by a group of 10 deputies from the left-wing opposition Frente Amplio (FA).... Read More

CHILE | Growth expanding.... Read More

Costa Rica’s Vice President and Foreign Minister Epsy Campbell last week announced a new comprehensive migration plan.... Read More

For the second time in less than a year, Guatemala’s supreme court (CSJ) has approved a request put forward by the attorney general’s office (AG) and the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Cicig), backed by the United Nations (UN), for President Jimmy Morales to be stripped of his immunity from prosecution to be investigated for illegal campaign financing involving his Frente de Convergencia Nacional (FCN-Nación) party.... Read More

Uruguay’s foreign minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa signed a memorandum of understanding in China last week incorporating his country into the ‘One Belt and One Road initiative’ (OBOR).... Read More

“If [Venezuela’s] dictatorship doesn’t end, the migration won’t end.”... Read More