Latin American Weekly Report - 24 October 2019 (WR-19-42)

Bolivia has been plunged into uncertainty following the 20 October general election in which President Evo Morales was seeking a contentious fourth re-election for the ruling Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS).... Read More

Fuerza Popular (FP), the country’s main right-wing opposition party that remains loyal to the Fujimori family dynasty, voted on 20 October to take part in the congressional elections scheduled for 26 January.... Read More

On 20 October political parties across Colombia wound up their campaigns for local elections due a week later, on Sunday 27 October.... Read More

It was Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri’s last chance to shake up the campaign leading up to the 27 October general election first-round vote, in which he continues to trail in second place in the presidential race.... Read More

After 10 months Brazil’s far-right government led by President Jair Bolsonaro has hailed passage of the pension reform bill, approved in a 60-19 final senate vote on 22 October, as a major victory.... Read More

A country often described as one of the wealthiest and most politically stable in Latin America has experienced a sudden and widely unexpected social explosion.... Read More

Comparatively speaking Chile is seen as one of the safer countries in Latin America with low rates of crime and homicide.... Read More

Ahead of the first round of the Uruguayan elections due on 27 October the balance of probabilities seemed to indicate the electorate was set to click a few notches towards the Right.... Read More

Under the threat of widespread and generalised violence in the city of Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa state, the Mexican government decided to release one of the leaders of the Sinaloa/Pacífico drug trafficking organisation (DTO) it had managed to capture just hours before.... Read More

A mass trial of 426 members of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) street gang has implicated the country’s two largest parties, the left-wing Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) and the right-wing Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Arena) in illegal vote-buying.... Read More

HONDURAS | FDI down 39.3%.... Read More

The Brazilian government has abandoned its controversial attempt to appoint the President’s third son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, as the new Brazilian ambassador in Washington.... Read More

“I have called this conference to denounce, in front of the Bolivian people and the entire world, that a coup d’état is under way.... Read More