Weekly Report - 25 October 2018 (WR-18-42)

A caravan of up to 7,000 Central American migrants has been working its way from Honduras through Guatemala and Mexico with the aim of entering the United States.... Read More

Peru’s largest political party was in crisis this week, as its main leader Keiko Fujimori appeared in court hearings designed to determine whether she and 10 collaborators should be sentenced to 36 months’ imprisonment for accepting illicit campaign financing during the 2011 general election.... Read More

The Argentine government led by President Mauricio Macri is only one step away from securing approval for an austere and unpopular but International Monetary Fund (IMF)-approved 2019 budget.... Read More

Jair Bolsonaro, an ex-army captain, looks set to become Brazil’s next president.... Read More

“On Sunday we are going to win.” It was not presidential frontrunner Jair Bolsonaro, but his opponent Fernando Haddad who tweeted this with less than a week to go before the second round of Brazil’s presidential election, on 28 October.... Read More

However much he keeps talking about the future, President Sebastián Piñera cannot seem to escape the past in Chile.... Read More

Congress has approved a reform of the Caja Militar, the military pension, in a protracted process which has been the source of serious friction between the left-wing Frente Amplio (FA) government led by President Tabaré Vázquez and the armed forces.... Read More

The recent announcement by Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador that one of his incoming government’s objectives is for Mexico to stop exporting crude oil has produced concern among economic and financial analysts.... Read More

MEXICO | Shoring up ties with Canada.... Read More

Guatemala’s 158-member unicameral national legislature has recently delivered two major blows to anti-impunity efforts.... Read More

This week Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse replaced two key allies – his chief of staff Wilson Laleau and the general secretary to the presidency Yves Germain Joseph.... Read More

Colombia’s transitional justice court (JEP) has announced that it has received official documentation from many of the 31 former leaders of the demobilised Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrillas who it had called to provide information related to kidnapping and enforced disappearance cases in which they have been implicated.... Read More

“To migrate is a human right....Our solidarity with the march.”... Read More