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Latin American Weekly Report - 31 October 2019 (WR-19-43)

Leader
Alberto Fernández will become president of Argentina on 10 December.... Read More
Brazil & Southern Cone
The dominance of Uruguayan politics by the left-wing Frente Amplio (FA) coalition is at an end.... Read More
In response to a nationwide wave of protests Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera has replaced eight cabinet ministers and announced a package of reforms.... Read More
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has reacted with fury to allegations linking him to the 14 March 2018 murder of the leftist Rio de Janeiro city councillor and long-time community activist Marielle Franco, which continues to be the subject of court investigations.... Read More
PARAGUAY | Paraguay registers greatest fall in exports.... Read More
Andean Countries
Local elections held in Colombia on 27 October delivered many surprises.... Read More
Protests spread across Bolivia this week as President Evo Morales continued to assert that he had won a first-round victory in the elections of 20 October, giving him a fourth consecutive presidential term.... Read More
Mexico
A contentious law approved by the Baja California (BC) state legislature extending the governor’s term by three years will be analysed by Mexico’s supreme court (SCJN).... Read More
MEXICO | General Motors factories resume operations.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Nicaragua’s First Lady and Vice-President Rosario Murillo launched a new campaign, ‘Todos tenemos derechos’ (‘We all have rights’) on 30 October.... Read More
COSTA RICA | Finance minister’s resignation provokes uncertainty.... Read More
Postscript
The acrimonious rift between the two most influential politicians in the Dominican Republic led to the definitive rupture of the ruling Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD) this week.... Read More
“What has happened in Argentina, what we see has happened in the sister Republic of Chile, what happened recently in Ecuador, should give us pause, not just political leaders but also social and business leaders, showing us that political and economic models based on permanent [fiscal] adjustment are not viable.”... Read More

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