Weekly Report - 06 September 2018 (WR-18-35)

Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri announced the implementation of a series of severe economic measures this week in a bid to restore market confidence in the ailing peso and credibility in his administration.... Read More

“Julio César Trujillo, with a less-than-mediocre political record, has become ‘emperor’ of Ecuador,” former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017) recently tweeted.... Read More

The Venezuelan government is caught in a difficult balancing act.... Read More

Bolivia’s legislature, which is controlled by the ruling Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), has approved a new law on political parties and organisations.... Read More

ECUADOR | Moreno promotes trade and investment on Japan trip.... Read More

Brazil’s left-wing Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) is being obliged to rethink its strategy for the upcoming general election on 7 October after a court ruling barred former president Lula da Silva (2003-2011) from running.... Read More

Brazil is mourning the loss of its cultural heritage after a fire destroyed the Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, one of the country’s oldest and most important museums.... Read More

BRAZIL | Growth sluggish.... Read More

When President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador takes office on 1 December he will enjoy a congressional dominance not seen since the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) was in its pomp more than three decades ago.... Read More

President Jimmy Morales has revealed that he will not be renewing the mandate of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Cicig), more than a decade on from when it began operations.... Read More

President Juan Orlando Hernández last week announced the relaunch of dialogue between the Honduran government and political opposition aimed at finding a solution to the post-electoral crisis.... Read More

EL SALVADOR | Exports to China up.... Read More

One year on from its formal baptism as a political party bearing the same initials, the re-styled Fuerza Alternativa Revolucionaria del Común (Farc) is confronting a serious internal rift.... Read More

“What we have to face is a basic problem, which is we cannot spend more than we have.... Read More