Weekly Report - 11 April 2019 (WR-19-14)

The governments of Colombia and Peru sealed accords this week tentatively resolving long-running social conflicts that have caused serious economic repercussions.... Read More

Some 197 newly elected mayors entered Ecuador’s Carondelet presidential palace on 4 April on a red carpet customarily reserved for heads of state and other foreign dignitaries for a special ceremony organised by President Lenín Moreno.... Read More

Juan Guaidó has the bit between his teeth again after a series of large protests against the government led by Nicolás Maduro at the weekend were followed by the decision by the Organization of American States (OAS) to recognise his choice of ambassador to the hemispheric body.... Read More

President Jair Bolsonaro’s government reached the symbolic 100-day mark on 10 April.... Read More

The 7 April gubernatorial elections in Argentina’s Río Negro province produced another victory for a local political party and a resounding defeat for the nationally ruling centre-right Cambiemos coalition.... Read More

ARGENTINA | Drop in industrial and construction activity.... Read More

When Andrés Manuel López Obrador assumed the Mexican presidency in December last year he must have thought that education reform would be the most straightforward of all the challenges facing him.... Read More

Members of the political opposition in Mexico’s federal senate took advantage of a meeting with the visiting head of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Michelle Bachelet, this week to ask for the UN to monitor the process of the creation of a national guard (GN) closely.... Read More

MEXICO | Fiscal discipline.... Read More

The 3 April deadline for the latest round of talks between the government led by President Daniel Ortega and opposition Alianza Cívica por la Justicia y la Democracia (ACJD), which began at the end of February, has come and gone with little to show.... Read More

With just over two months to go until the general election, Guatemala’s electoral authority (TSE) has revoked the candidacy of one of the main contenders, Thelma Aldana, a former attorney general (AG) (2014-2018), who was running for the new centre-left Movimiento Semilla.... Read More

“Military subordination to political authority is not in question,” José Bayardi, said on 4 April, four days before being sworn-in as Uruguay’s new defence minister.... Read More

“In the 21st century pure Christianity is called chavismo.”... Read More