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Weekly Report - 15 November 2018 (WR-18-45)
PERU: García and Fujimori escape censure
Peru’s congress has approved the final text of the long-awaited report drawn up by the ‘Lava Jato’ legislative commission investigating the corruption scheme orchestrated by the Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht. It recommended that the attorney general’s office should charge 132 people in the many-tentacled scandal, among them three former presidents. Alan García (1985-1990; 2006-2011) was the only former president elected this century to avoid accusations of wrongdoing, as did Keiko Fujimori, the leader of the main right-wing opposition Fuerza Popular (FP). Deputies from FP and García’s Partido Aprista Peruano (PAP) used their majority to vote down an attempt to include the two politicians in the final report.
- López Obrador’s security and economic strategies raise questions
- COLOMBIA: Duque battles internal revolt
- PERU: García and Fujimori escape censure
- VENEZUELA: Opposition calls for new elections
- TRACKING TRENDS
- BRAZIL: Bolsonaro forms his military team
- BRAZIL: TSE raises campaign-funding questions
- ARGENTINA: Macri government secures budget approval
- PARAGUAY: Tensions within ruling party start to boil over
- CHILE: Military seeks to reassure on various fronts
- TRACKING TRENDS
- NICARAGUA: ‘Reconciliation law’ rings hollow
- HONDURAS: Anti-corruption efforts back under scrutiny
- Venezuela-Colombia humanitarian crisis could worsen
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