End of preview - This article contains approximately 768 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options
Back
Weekly Report - 05 August 2021 (WR-21-31)
NICARAGUA: Ortega and Murillo confirm re-election bid
Latin America has seen no shortage of electoral surprises in recent years as volatile voters in an increasingly turbulent world reject mainstream political parties. It is nonetheless fair to say that a defeat for President Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua’s presidential elections on 7 November would exceed any of these results in terms of shock factor. Ortega was formally anointed as the presidential candidate of the ruling left-wing Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) on 2 August and duly registered his candidacy before the supreme electoral council (CSE).
- Castillo on collision course with congress over cabinet choices
- COLOMBIA: Action taken against Montoya over ‘false positives’
- BOLIVIA: Protests mark extension of Áñez’s detention
- ECUADOR: A tale of two mayors
- CHILE: Light at the end of the pandemic tunnel?
- ARGENTINA: Fernández incites controversy with judges
- BRAZIL: Tensions rise over electoral fraud claims
- BRAZIL: Cinemateca fire reminder of wider issues
- PARAGUAY: Resurgence of violence in north
- MEXICO: First national popular consultation flops
- TRACKING TRENDS
- NICARAGUA: Ortega and Murillo confirm re-election bid
- GUATEMALA : New anti-corruption czar disappoints
- Students march against Bukele over El Salvador’s militarisation
- Quotes of the week