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Student Edition: Weekly Report - 17 October 2019
LatinNews Analysis
Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno survived.... Read More
Campaigning for Colombia’s regional and local elections on 27 October is reaching a climax.... Read More
With days until the 20 October general election, multiple unknowns surround the vote in which President Evo Morales is seeking a contentious re-election bid for the ruling Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS).... Read More
The de facto government led by Nicolás Maduro has decreed yet another huge increase in the minimum wage in Venezuela.... Read More
Brazil’s federal police raided properties in the north-eastern state of Pernambuco on 15 October linked to federal deputy Luciano Bivar, head of the Partido Social Liberal (PSL), the right-wing party that helped sweep Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency this time last year.... Read More
Anyone expecting Alberto Fernández to back off in the first of two presidential debates in Argentina on 13 October, safe in the knowledge that he has a huge lead in opinion polls, would have been rapidly disabused of this notion.... Read More
Mexico’s federal senate has voted overwhelmingly in favour of introducing a constitutional reform establishing a recall referendum.... Read More
Two separate shootings that took place barely a day apart, and which claimed dozens of lives, have raised serious doubts over the success of the national security strategy pursued by the government led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.... Read More
Panama’s President Laurentino Cortizo recently presented his balance sheet for his first 100 days in office.... Read More
At the end of last week Alianza por las Reformas, a local platform comprising various civil-society groups, was compelled to release a statement urging Guatemala’s executive and legislature to respect and heed constitutional court (CC) resolutions.... Read More
Kenji Fujimori has dissociated himself completely from the right-wing Fuerza Popular (FP, Fujimoristas) led by his sister Keiko, who is being held in pre-trial detention on suspicion of corruption related to Brazil’s construction company Odebrecht and obstruction of justice.... Read More
“By moving in this hasty manner, [Peru’s main opposition FP] crossed a fine red line that it should never have crossed: politicising election to the [constitutional] tribunal.”... Read More
- Moreno caves in, cracks down on Correísta ‘coup mongers’
- COLOMBIA: Regional elections pose problems
- BOLIVIA: Uncertainty mounts ahead of election
- VENEZUELA: Minimum wage hike drives inflation
- BRAZIL: Bolsonaro to dump PSL?
- ARGENTINA: Gloves off in first debate
- MEXICO: Poised to adopt recall referendum
- MEXICO: Shootings undermine claims of progress
- PANAMA: Cortizo marks first 100 days in office
- GUATEMALA: Top court faces fresh attacks
- Kenji making first play for Peru’s presidency?
- Quotes of the week