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Student Edition: Weekly Report - 06 February 2020
LatinNews Analysis
Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández concluded a six-day tour of Europe on 5 February, taking him from Vatican City, where he was welcomed by Pope Francis, who organised a forum on economic solidarity that looked tailor-made for his native country, to the Élysée Palace in Paris.... Read More
President Martín Vizcarra presented his government’s five priorities this week to representatives of the majority of the nine political parties that ended up winning seats in what will be the most fragmented congress since 2001 when deputies start work next month.... Read More
A six-hour ‘unity meeting’ on 1 February failed to unite the uneasy coalition of parties hoping to prevent the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) from returning to power in the 3 May elections, as no fewer than eight presidential candidates were registered with Bolivia’s electoral tribunal (TSE) on the 3 February deadline.... Read More
At the annual opening session of the supreme court (TSJ) on 31 January, Venezuela’s de facto president Nicolás Maduro commented that “it is time to accept that there are things here that do not work, not because of [US President Donald] Trump, but because of us”.... Read More
“This violence cannot continue; this violence must end,” Chile’s interior minister Gonzalo Blumel said on 30 January.... Read More
For the first time since the start of President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration in Brazil, Paraguay was graced with the visit of a high-ranking Brazilian official.... Read More
With under three weeks to go before Shrove Tuesday on 25 February, Brazil has truly entered its pre-Carnival period, with the accompanying influx of tourists and countrywide street parties.... Read More
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro is partial to romantic relationship metaphors, often referring to the image of a courtship, an engagement, or a marriage to describe his government’s diplomatic relations.... Read More
CHILE | Some optimism on the economy.... Read More
“There may be no growth but there is development and wellbeing.” This was the response Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador gave to the news that the economy contracted by 0.1% in 2019, according to figures released by the national statistics institute (Inegi) last week.... Read More
Since announcing at the start of the year that the terms of representatives of Haiti’s entire lower chamber and two-thirds of the senate had expired (meaning he would effectively rule by decree [WR-20-02] as of 13 January), President Jovenel Moïse has shown few signs that he is seeking to address the key issue of staging elections, which were scheduled for October 2019.... Read More
In what was the first electoral test for the ruling centre-left Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC) since President Carlos Alvarado assumed power in May 2018, municipal elections took place on 2 February with 82 mayoralties up for grabs.... Read More
HONDURAS | Latest poverty figures.... Read More
Guatemala’s new President Alejandro Giammattei met his Salvadorean peer, Nayib Bukele, in El Salvador last week.... Read More
“We have a plan.... Read More
- Argentina gets divine help in debt renegotiation
- PERU: Vizcarra seeks common cause with congress
- BOLIVIA: Divisions deepen in presidential race
- VENEZUELA: Increasing desperation for sanctions dialogue
- CHILE: Call for end of violence falls on deaf ears
- PARAGUAY-BRAZIL: Friendly neighbours
- BRAZIL: Coronavirus causes Carnival concerns
- BRAZIL: Still fawning over Trump
- TRACKING TRENDS
- MEXICO: López Obrador extols alternative to growth
- HAITI: Pressure grows on Moïse over elections
- COSTA RICA: Elections expose frustration with national parties
- TRACKING TRENDS
- Giammattei and Bukele hail ‘historic’ agreements
- Quotes of the week