Weekly Report - 04 October 2018 (WR-18-39)

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague has issued a long-awaited ruling.... Read More

The peace process is on rocky ground.... Read More

Peru’s former president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) will have to return to prison after the supreme court ruled on 3 October that the humanitarian pardon he received in December last year failed to meet legal requirements.... Read More

Brazilians will go to the polls on 7 October to elect a new president, the culmination of a tumultuous electoral campaign that has seen one candidate stabbed, another barred from running, a proliferation of ‘fake news’ on social media, and fears for the country’s democracy cause public figures at home and abroad, from pop stars to politicians, speak out against the risks of radicalisation and authoritarianism.... Read More

Argentina’s most high-profile moderates in the main opposition Partido Justicialista (PJ, Peronists) held a meeting last week to create an electoral alliance ahead of presidential elections in October next year.... Read More

Upon assuming office in August, President Mario Abdo Benítez said that his administration would follow the general policy of fiscal responsibility that has underpinned Paraguay’s macroeconomic stability in recent decades rather than continuing the more recent trend of growing government spending and indebtedness followed by his predecessor Horacio Cartes (2013-2018).... Read More

BRAZIL | Successful pre-salt sale.... Read More

“This is a good night for Mexico and for North America.” With these words Mexico’s foreign minister, Luis Videgaray Caso, greeted the 30 September announcement by US and Canadian government officials that they had reached an agreement on bilateral terms of trade that would allow for Canada to adhere to a new trilateral trade accord that will replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta).... Read More

On 2 October 1968 Mexico’s armed forces crushed a student-led protest, killing hundreds and imprisoning thousands more in the Mexico City neighbourhood of Tlatelolco.... Read More

Local civil-society groups warned last week that the Nicaraguan administration led by President Daniel Ortega was establishing a state of siege.... Read More

COSTA RICA | Fiscal reform.... Read More

Uruguay’s economy & finance minister, Danilo Astori, has confirmed that he will not seek the presidency for the ruling FA in 2019.... Read More

“Not one square centimetre of our sea or sovereignty ever has been or ever will be at stake.” A jubilant President Sebastián Piñera on a favourable ruling by the ICJ for Chile in its dispute with Bolivia.  ... Read More