Weekly Report - 15 November 2018 (WR-18-45)

Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador presented his much-anticipated public security strategy on 14 November.... Read More

Colombia’s President Iván Duque is wrestling with a rebellion not just from the ranks but also the top echelons of the ruling Centro Democrático (CD).... Read More

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.... Read More

Venezuela’s national assembly (AN), controlled by the political opposition, has passed a resolution refusing to recognise a new presidential term for President Nicolás Maduro, scheduled to begin on 10 January, after elections last May.... Read More

BOLIVIA | Spanish aid.... Read More

Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro said on 13 November that he had chosen retired four-star General Fernando Azevedo e Silva to be his defence minister.... Read More

Brazil’s electoral court Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE) raised questions on 12 November about possible illegal donations to the successful presidential campaign by the right-winger Jair Bolsonaro, now president-elect.... Read More

“Never has Argentina conducted an [economic] adjustment of such magnitude without the [incumbent] government falling.” With these words Argentina’ finance minister, Nicolás Dujovne, greeted the news that a version of the zero-deficit 2019 draft budget tabled by the government led by President Mauricio Macri had been given final approval by the opposition-controlled federal senate.... Read More

“Not much of a man.” This is how Paraguay’s President Mario Abdo Benítez described his predecessor, Horacio Cartes (2013-August 2018), after Cartes made some disparaging remarks about one of the female members in the entourage that accompanied Abdo Benítez to his official visit to the Vatican.... Read More

Chile’s military has conducted the biggest overhaul of its high command since the return to democracy in 1990.... Read More

CHILE | Union protests.... Read More

With no end in sight to the political crisis in Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega has unveiled a proposed ‘Law of Reconciliation and Peace’.... Read More

Honduras’s attorney general’s office (AG) last week staged Operación Dragón XI, a nationwide operation aimed at combating corruption in key institutions.... Read More

The number of Venezuelans who have escaped the crisis in their country by emigrating to Colombia could double from 1m to 2m within the next six months, according to an NGO, the International Rescue Committee (IRC).... Read More

“Politics is always a choice between two inconvenient options.... Read More