Weekly Report - 17 April 2019 (WR-19-15)

Venezuela began to receive humanitarian aid from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on 16 April.... Read More

President Lenín Moreno’s decision to revoke the diplomatic asylum of Julian Assange has deepened his personal animosity with former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017).... Read More

Peru’s prime minister Salvador del Solar led a delegation of cabinet ministers on 11 April to hold talks with the Fuerabamba community group over the open pit copper mine Las Bambas in the southern-central region of Apurímac.... Read More

It was only just over a year ago that President Jair Bolsonaro, at the time federal deputy for the Partido Social Cristão (PSC) in the Brazilian congress, switched party allegiances and adopted the Partido Social Liberal (PSL) as the vehicle for his presidential campaign.... Read More

Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri is acutely aware that unremitting inflation could scupper his hopes of re-election in October.... Read More

ARGENTINA | Offshore oil tender.... Read More

“Insecurity and corruption have become the two main battles for the new government and society; however, it seems that the actions taken so far are not enough”.... Read More

The efforts by the government led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to deliver an education reform that keeps some of the better aspects of the 2012-2013 reform but that is supported by the Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE) teachers’ union appears to have reached an impasse.... Read More

Ahead of taking office on 1 June El Salvador’s President-elect Nayib Bukele has already upset the presidents of Nicaragua and Honduras, Daniel Ortega and Juan Orlando Hernández, respectively.... Read More

“We already did our part of the work.... Read More

With less than three weeks until the general election on 5 May, the opposition Partido Revolucionario Democrático (PRD), Panama’s largest party, is gearing up for a return to the presidency after a decade.... Read More

EL SALVADOR | FDI up.... Read More

The Brazilian government announced a package of measures on 16 April aimed at responding to the demands of the country’s lorry drivers.... Read More

“History has something to show us…the generation of our parents and grandparents confronted, with less experience and even fewer resources, darker and more serious times and emerged victorious.”... Read More