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Weekly Report - 05 March 2020 (WR-20-09)

Leader
Fifteen years of left-wing governments came to an end in Uruguay on 1 March with the investiture of Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou as president.... Read More
Andean Countries
The bilateral meeting between Colombia’s President Iván Duque and US President Donald Trump on 2 March had an air of improvisation about it – according to Trump, it had been “scheduled very quickly, over the weekend”.... Read More
Juan Guaidó has picked out 10 March as the date for his next confrontation with Nicolás Maduro’s government.... Read More
As preparations continue for Bolivia’s presidential election in May, a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) elections data lab has threatened to reopen festering wounds over the October 2019 vote, which was annulled over allegations of electoral fraud against former president Evo Morales (2006-2019) and the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS).... Read More
Brazil & Southern Cone
If the Brazilian axiom that ‘the new year only starts after Carnival’ is taken as truth, the country has only just emerged from a more than two-month holiday.... Read More
March is a critical month in Chile.... Read More
Mexico
The coronavirus (Covid-19) epidemic reached Mexico this week, with the local authorities confirming the first handful of cases in the country.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
President Danilo Medina delivered his state-of-the-nation address on 27 February, to mark Independence Day in the Dominican Republic, against the backdrop of the largest protest since the suspension of municipal elections on 16 February.... Read More
“A fraud of a law” which will result in “de facto impunity”.... Read More
Nicaragua’s two main opposition outfits, Alianza Cívica por la Justicia y la Democracia and Unidad Nacional Azul y Blanco, have launched a new ‘National Coalition’ (Coalición Nacional) to challenge the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) government led by President Daniel Ortega.... Read More
Postscript
The internal political leadership conflict besetting Mexico’s ruling Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) was resolved last week when the federal electoral tribunal (TEPJF) ruled that Alfonso Ramírez Cuéllar, a Morena federal deputy, was the party’s rightful interim president.... Read More
“I don’t understand why by some sad twist of fate every time I come into government we are in default.... Read More

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