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Weekly Report - 23 January 2020 (WR-20-03)

Leader
In the space of one week, Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has seen two figures published exposing his government’s failure to deliver on his most ambitious promises.... Read More
Andean Countries
Juan Guaidó is intent on capitalising on the publicity afforded by the clumsy attempt to prevent him from assuming the presidency of the national assembly for a second straight year by going on a high-profile foreign tour in defiance of a legal bar on his leaving Venezuela.... Read More
The first major protests of 2020 could not quite match the huge numbers mobilised throughout November and December 2019, but the return of thousands of Colombians to the streets on 21 January nonetheless vanquished any hopes President Iván Duque might have harboured that protest fatigue would save him from a stalemate that has proven costly to his government, both economically and politically.... Read More
Inaugurated as a public holiday in 2009, Plurinational State Day was envisioned as a celebration of unity between Bolivia’s multiple cultures and communities.... Read More
Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno has delivered a stinging rebuke to the umbrella indigenous movement Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador (Conaie) over its intention to seek redress in international forums for what it considers “excessive use of force” by his government in last October’s protests.... Read More
PERU | Recovering fast growth rate.... Read More
Brazil & Southern Cone
The escape in the early hours of 19 January of 75 inmates from a Paraguayan prison, reportedly through a 15-metre tunnel dug in a bathroom in the middle of the prison compound, sounds like the plotline for a film script.... Read More
The pressure on President Sebastián Piñera is unrelenting.... Read More
After completing a first month in power that was dominated by fiscal and monetary policy measures aimed at addressing the fiscal deficit and stabilising the peso [WR-20-02], the government led by President Alberto Fernández is starting to roll out economic initiatives aimed at reducing inflation and providing respite to those who have been feeling its effects the most.... Read More
Brazil has been shaken by another ideology-driven scandal.... Read More
The competition to secure nominations for the Montevideo mayoral candidacy ahead of Uruguay’s municipal elections on 10 May is producing significant divisions among the country’s main political parties.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Alejandro Giammattei and his conservative Vamos government took up the reins of power in Guatemala last week, making all-too-familiar pledges which have failed to materialise under his predecessors: to tackle poverty and food insecurity, corruption, and crime.... Read More
Postscript
Such is the prevailing uncertainty ahead of Peru’s congressional elections on 26 January that a leading local pollster was forced to declare this week that “it is not just about taking a photo of a tree but a film of a hurricane” to indicate the speed with which things will suddenly change.... Read More
“We are working every day to bring down the number of incidents of violent crime; we have to do more without doubt, but let’s make clear that we are still dealing with the hangover, that is to say the results, of a mistaken policy, as well as corruption in the public security arena.”... Read More

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