Weekly Report - 22 November 2018 (WR-18-46)

It is axiomatic to say that the Odebrecht corruption scandal has had profound ramifications for established political and judicial systems across Latin America.... Read More

Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro delivered a eulogy for Alí Rodríguez Araque, an icon of the Bolivarian Revolution and oil czar, on 21 November in which he insisted that a “fair price” for a barrel of crude would be US$100 (the average price for the Venezuelan oil basket this year is US$61.74).... Read More

The picture has become clearer ahead of next year’s general elections.... Read More

COLOMBIA | Signs of economic recovery in third quarter.... Read More

Two senior officials in Chile’s militarised police, the Carabineros, in the southern region of La Araucanía have resigned along with the region’s governor.... Read More

It was meant to be a non-partisan forum in which thinkers from around the world would be able to present their criticisms of the global capitalist order and the G-20 group of nations that seeks to perpetuate it.... Read More

Several new appointments are announced every day as the future government of Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro takes shape.... Read More

CHILE | Growth slows in third quarter.... Read More

The very day after President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador presented his public security strategy, Mexico’s supreme court (SCJN) ruled that the internal security law of the outgoing government led by President Enrique Peña Nieto was unconstitutional.... Read More

President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador has made a big gesture to Mexico’s private sector by forming a business advisory council, with which he will meet every two months.... Read More

“A mockery of the people.” This was the response by Saúl Méndez, the presidential candidate for the small leftist Frente Amplio por la Democracia (FAD), to the ‘ethics pact’ recently signed by the six other parties ahead of the general election in May 2019.... Read More

The Haitian government led by President Jovenel Moïse is coming under mounting pressure amid escalating nationwide protests which have claimed at least seven lives this week.... Read More

“This is a man who moves through corruption like a fish in water [and] who seems to have taken Dr Pizano’s denunciations [of irregularities related to Odebrecht] to have been a joke.”... Read More