Weekly Report - 25 July 2019 (WR-19-29)

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo conducted a whistle-stop tour to four nations in Latin America from 19 to 21 July.... Read More

“Not one more,” Colombia’s President Iván Duque said to loud applause during a speech on 20 July to open the new session of congress, his words echoed back to him by those present.... Read More

ECUADOR | El Mirador mine operations.... Read More

After more than three years of negotiations, the Finnish company UPM finally confirmed on 23 July that it will construct a massive pulp mill in central Uruguay.... Read More

Earlier in July, Brazil’s Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Inpe), the national institute for space research, released data according to which deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached 920.21 km2 in June.... Read More

“I love the Northeast,” President Jair Bolsonaro declared on 23 July during the inauguration of a new airport in Vitória da Conquista, a city in the south of the Brazilian Northeast’s largest state, Bahia.... Read More

ARGENTINA | Maintaining exchange rate stability.... Read More

The governor of the Estado de México (Edomex), Alfredo del Mazo Maza, has been accused of having a secret bank account in Andorra where he may have deposited illicit payments, which he is under pressure to clear up.... Read More

MEXICO | López Obrador criticises new IMF forecast.... Read More

Dominican President Danilo Medina finally brought an end to his prolonged silence on 22 July by indirectly confirmed that he would not seek to push through congress another constitutional reform in order to permit him to run for a third straight term in office in 2020.... Read More

The international community is flagging up concerns about a new criminal code which has been approved in Honduras and is due to take effect in November.... Read More

Just over two weeks after assuming office, the new Partido Revolucionario Democrático (PRD) government led by President Laurentino Cortizo has indicated its intention of making good a key electoral promise – enacting constitutional reform.... Read More

COSTA RICA | Decreasing fiscal deficit.... Read More

Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has slipped to one of his lowest levels of electoral support since taking office in 2006.... Read More

“The Galápagos Islands are NOT an ‘aircraft carrier’ for gringo use.... Read More