Weekly Report - 06 April 2023 (WR-23-14)

Peru has had six presidents in the last five years.... Read More

Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso issued a decree on 1 April authorising citizens to carry and use firearms in self-defence.... Read More

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Brazil’s finance minister Fernando Haddad is looking for money.... Read More

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Jorge Gómez Otaño, one of 13 candidates competing in Paraguay’s presidential elections, withdrew from the race and threw his weight behind Santiago Peña, the candidate of the ruling Asociación Nacional Republicana-Partido Colorado (ANR-PC) on 5 April.... Read More

Chile’s lower chamber of congress approved the controversial Nain-Retamal security bill on 5 April, just as news came in that another member of the Carabineros militarised police had been shot dead by criminals in Santiago.... Read More

Guadalupe Taddei was sworn in as president of Mexico’s national electoral institute (INE) on 3 April, becoming the first woman to head up the institute.... Read More

No love has been lost between Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Spanish energy company Iberdrola.... Read More

MEXICO | Remittances continue to rise.... Read More

Campaigning has officially begun ahead of Guatemala’s elections on 25 June.... Read More

A Taiwanese delegation headed up by President Tsai Ing-wen has paid a visit to Guatemala and Belize.... Read More

A delegation from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) concluded a five-day visit to Bolivia on 31 March, presenting a preliminary report which drew criticisms from across the political divide.... Read More

“Her government’s bungling is not comparable to the misgovernance of [former president Pedro] Castillo, it is nothing like as bad.”... Read More