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Student Edition: Weekly Report - 13 December 2018

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President Martín Vizcarra emphatically underscored his status as Peru’s most popular head of state in a generation in a referendum on political and judicial reform on 9 December.... Read More
Ecuador has its third vice president in 19 months.... Read More
Colombia’s President Iván Duque may have only recently concluded his first 100 days in office, but he has already decided to reshuffle the country’s military and police command structures.... Read More
Bolivia’s electoral authorities (TSE) last week officially authorised President Evo Morales to run in the presidential election in October 2019.... Read More
ECUADOR-PERU | Crude supply contract.... Read More
Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro and Vice-president-elect Hamilton Mourão took part in a ceremony on 10 December during which the supreme electoral court (TSE) presented them with diplomas confirming their electoral victory in October.... Read More
A presidential decree has put Brazil’s impoverished northern state of Roraima under federal intervention until 31 December.... Read More
After a tough year, in which his government has had to contend with a currency crisis, Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri will have been hoping for a stress-free end to 2018.... Read More
PARAGUAY | Downwards growth revision.... Read More
Both sides are at pains to deny it, but the executive and judicial branch of Mexico’s government are locked in a clash of powers just days after the investiture of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.... Read More
MEXICO | NAIM bonds.... Read More
Supporters of Nayib Bukele, the frontrunner ahead of presidential elections on 3 February, burst into the offices of the supreme electoral tribunal (TSE) on 6 December.... Read More
Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel raised eyebrows last week after announcing plans to backtrack partially on new regulations for ‘cuentapropistas’ (self-employed small entrepreneurs) due to take effect on 7 December.... Read More
“A bad month” for press freedom in Nicaragua.... Read More
Elections have been the lifeblood of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution for most of the 20 years since Hugo Chávez won election on 6 December 1998, but that animating spirit has never been at such a low ebb.... Read More
“Peruvians have voted for change and progress and against corruption and impunity.”... Read More

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