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Weekly Report - 20 September 2018 (WR-18-37)

Leader
Peru’s President Martín Vizcarra scored a notable victory over congress this week, which should lead to the imminent approval of four significant judicial and political reforms and their subsequent presentation to the public in a referendum before the year is out.... Read More
Andean
The Venezuelan government reacted to comments by Secretary General Luis Almagro of the Organization of American States (OAS) this week by claiming that the US was planning a military intervention in Venezuela under the cover of the OAS.... Read More
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales inaugurated a state-of-the-art new headquarters for the parliament of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) on the outskirts of the central city of Cochabamba on 12 September.... Read More
A new scandal involving the illegal wiretapping of mobile phones (locally known as ‘chuzadas’) of high-profile government officials has broken out in Colombia.... Read More
COLOMBIA | Cutting red tape to boost jobs market.... Read More
Brazil & Southern Cone
Brazil has just over two weeks to go before the first round of its most uncertain presidential election in recent history, on 7 October.... Read More
Argentina’s federal congress began debating the draft budget for 2019 this week.... Read More
BRAZIL | Ban on plastic straws.... Read More
Mexico & Nafta
In the run-up to Mexico’s presidential elections in July the campaign team of the eventual winner, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, released a small document outlining the candidate’s economic proposals entitled ‘Pejenomics’ (in allusion to López Obrador’s nickname – ‘El Peje’).... Read More
MEXICO | Pemex financial results.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Back in August 2017 President Jimmy Morales said that he would respect any legal resolutions issued by the constitutional court (CC) – remarks which followed its ruling overturning his order to expel the head of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Cicig), Iván Velásquez, after the latter first called for him to be investigated for corruption.... Read More
Costa Rica’s largest trade union, Asociación Nacional de Empleados Públicos y Privados (Anep), has begun an indefinite strike against the fiscal reform proposed by the centre-left Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC) government led by President Carlos Alvarado – a major priority given the country’s spiralling fiscal deficit, which closed at 6.2% of GDP in 2017.... Read More
Postscript
Chile’s lower chamber of congress has thrown out a constitutional challenge by the political opposition to remove three magistrates sitting on the supreme court (CSJ) for “abandonment of duties” after they released seven prisoners in July who had been convicted of crimes against humanity committed under the military dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).... Read More
“It is very easy to ride the wave of [public] indignation, but let’s resolve the country’s principal problems.”... Read More

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