Weekly Report - 29 August 2019 (WR-19-34)

President Jair Bolsonaro’s reputation abroad has been severely damaged by his response to an international outcry over the destruction of the Brazilian Amazon.... Read More

Colombia is gearing up for regional elections due on 27 October, when governors of 32 departments, councillors in the departmental assemblies, and mayors for just over a thousand municipalities will be chosen.... Read More

The large surge of Venezuelan refugees travelling from Colombia into Ecuador was brought to a halt at midnight on 25 August, as the government in Quito imposed new visa requirements.... Read More

It does not look good for Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri ahead of the first round of presidential elections on 27 October.... Read More

“Paraguay is experiencing a combination of adverse internal and external events that affect economic activity… warranting the adoption of extraordinary measures to ensure that growth takes off in 2020”.... Read More

A bill tabled by Chile’s opposition that seeks to reform the country’s labour code to reduce the working week looks set to advance in congress.... Read More

They had not shared a platform in public for almost a year.... Read More

Opposition parties in Mexico’s federal chamber of deputies have vowed to defend the rules of the chamber and the political rights these confer on them from efforts by the ruling Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) to change them to its benefit.... Read More

On 26 August Jan Jarab, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said Mexico was not doing enough to protect journalists and community activists.... Read More

President Nayib Bukele’s proposal to establish an international commission against impunity and corruption for El Salvador (Cicies), in the mould of the United Nations (UN)-backed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Cicig) and the Organization of American States (OAS)-sponsored Mission to Support the Fight against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (Maccih), continues to stoke debate.... Read More

President Jovenel Moïse has survived an impeachment motion put forward by a handful of opposition legislators which accused him of “high treason” based on what they described as various flagrant breaches of the constitution.... Read More

On 27 August, Brazil’s federal supreme court (STF) annulled a sentence that was handed out by former judge Sérgio Moro, now justice minister, as part of the ‘Lava Jato’ corruption investigation.... Read More

“Corrupt individuals can stop investigations, they can buy people out of prison, but they can’t buy a society’s conscience.”... Read More