Weekly Report - 07 July 2022 (WR-22-27)

Argentina is trapped in a vicious circle where economic travails fuel political infighting within the ruling coalition which, in turn, creates more economic adversity.... Read More

The grand national accord he vowed to forge is taking shape faster than Colombia’s president-elect Gustavo Petro could ever have imagined.... Read More

Ecuador’s government reached an agreement with the umbrella indigenous organisation Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador (Conaie) on 30 June, sacrificing core pillars of its economic agenda in order to end the civil unrest that had gripped the country over the previous 18 days.... Read More

For the fifth time since 2008, Bolivia’s ruling left-wing Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) has launched an effort to industrialise coca production.... Read More

Chile has a shiny new constitution, just as 78% of voters asked for in the referendum in October 2020.... Read More

If current opinion polls are right, former leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-11) may pull off one of the most outstanding political comebacks ever.... Read More

BRAZIL | Lula meets business leaders.... Read More

Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador inaugurated his flagship Olmeca oil refinery, also known as Dos Bocas, in his native state of Tabasco amid much fanfare on 1 July.... Read More

Mexico’s foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, set off on a work tour to Asia on 3 July.... Read More

With less than four months until the 6 November 2022 municipal elections, President Daniel Ortega’s Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) has seized control of five mayoralties won in the previous (2017) municipal vote by the opposition party Ciudadanos por la Libertad (CxL), which was stripped of its legal status last year ahead of the November 2021 general election.... Read More

Honduras’s now opposition Partido Nacional (PN), of former president Juan Orlando Hernández (PN, 2014-2022) who was extradited in April to the US on drug and weapons charges [WR-22-07], is encountering various difficulties following its departure from office in January after over a decade in government.... Read More

Peru’s President Pedro Castillo has named his sixth interior minister since taking office just under a year ago.... Read More

“To create values the best thing is to come to an agreement.... Read More