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Student Edition: Weekly Report - 21 November 2019

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Chile will have a new constitution.... Read More
Since declaring herself interim president following Evo Morales’s resignation on 10 November [WR-19-45], Jeanine Áñez has pledged to “restore peace and hold free and transparent elections in the shortest time possible”.... Read More
Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno suffered a serious setback on 17 November when opposition parties in the national assembly from across the political spectrum united to reject and then archive an economic package which his government had hoped would raise some US$700m.... Read More
PERU | Budget boost.... Read More
Annual data published on 18 November by the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Inpe), Brazil’s national institute for space research, has confirmed that Amazon deforestation is on the rise.... Read More
The 11th summit of the Brics group of so-called emerging economies – comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – which Brazil hosted in the capital Brasília on 13 and 14 November was expected to be a test of both President Jair Bolsonaro’s foreign policy and the group’s continued relevance as a geopolitical entity (which has been in question for a while).... Read More
The issue by a Brazilian judge of an international arrest warrant against Paraguay’s former president Horacio Cartes (2013-2018) and the implication of incumbent President Mario Abdo Benítez’s chief-of-staff in the criminal case for which Cartes is wanted has shaken up Paraguayan politics.... Read More
PARAGUAY | Protests delay budget debate.... Read More
The appointment of a controversial new head of Mexico’s national human rights commission (CNDH) has triggered the resignation of various officials from the body and raised widespread concerns over the political independence of the organisation.... Read More
Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse appealed for unity on 18 November to help overcome a socio-political crisis that has paralysed the country since mid-September.... Read More
The Dominican superior electoral tribunal (TSE) ruled on 18 November that there were no legal or constitutional impediments to former president Leonel Fernández (1996-2000; 2004-2012) standing as a presidential candidate in May 2020.... Read More
PANAMA | Deflation.... Read More
Supporters of Venezuela’s widely recognised interim president Juan Guaidó, motivated by mushrooming protests across the region, especially Bolivia, took to the streets in their largest numbers for several months on 16 November.... Read More
“This agreement is a first step, but it is a historic and fundamental first step to start building our new social pact, and in this the citizenry will have a leading role.”... Read More

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