Weekly Report - 25 November 2021 (WR-21-47)

Moderate left-wing and moderate right-wing candidates performed extremely poorly in the first round of Chile’s presidential elections on 21 November.... Read More

The regional and municipal elections held in Venezuela on 21 November marked the first vote since 2017 that was not boycotted by the political opposition.... Read More

Óscar Iván Zuluaga won the nomination of the ruling right-wing Centro Democrático (CD) for the May 2022 presidential election on 22 November, becoming the first candidate to secure a major party’s backing officially.... Read More

The Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB) held primaries on 21 November to choose its candidate for Brazil’s October 2022 presidential elections.... Read More

New data on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, released by the government’s Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Inpe) on 18 November, has further damaged President Jair Bolsonaro’s reputation abroad, for two reasons.... Read More

It appeared discreetly in the official gazette (DOF) on 22 November, set to take effect within 24 hours of publication.... Read More

The number of undocumented migrants from Central America and Haiti who are endeavouring to travel through Mexico’s southern border and head northwards to the US has surged massively this year.... Read More

There has been a change of plan at Mexico’s central bank, the Banco de México (Banxico).... Read More

Haiti’s prime minister, Ariel Henry, this week swore-in a cabinet which includes eight new ministers.... Read More

No fewer than four election-related murders took place between 13-15 November, reigniting concerns about violence ahead of the 28 November general elections.... Read More

Last week President Daniel Ortega denounced the charter of the Organization of American States (OAS), effectively triggering Nicaragua’s official withdrawal from the hemispheric body, a process expected to take two years.... Read More

In the evening of 22 November, a group of nine hooded men threw various Molotov cocktails at the offices of Grupo Clarín, Argentina’s biggest, and opposition-aligned, media group.... Read More

“We hold the conductor’s baton in Chilean politics and our party will choose democratically and collectively who will become the next president.” Chile’s Franco Parisi, the anti-establishment populist presidential candidate who finished third in the first round, announces an online consultation among party members in early December to decide who to endorse in the run-off.... Read More