Latin American Special Reports
Constitutional Reform
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- Introduction
- Case study: Chile’s expensive deadlock
- How to measure constitutional success
- Case study: Mexico seeks elected judiciary
- Case study: reform gives Bukele a free hand
- Regional constitutional developments in 2024
- Case study: Nicaragua becomes the Ortega family dictatorship
- Case study: updating Venezuela’s Bolivarian constitution
From the mid-1990s to the present – a period of three decades – there has been almost constant constitutional change in Latin America.
Election Watch
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- Introduction
- ECUADOR: Noboa’s to lose
- BOLIVIA: The MAS tears itself in two
- CHILE: Candidates jostling for position
- HONDURAS: Race wide open
- GUYANA: PPP/C can boast enviable, if fortuitous, economic record
- SURINAME: A key election ahead of first oil
- JAMAICA: Ruling JLP seeking a third term on mixed record
- TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: Kamla’s unpopularity to help PNM in quest for third term
- BELIZE: PUP government well set for second mandate
- ST VINCENT & THE GRENADINES: Comrade Ralph looking for unprecedented sixth term
A bumper year for elections, 2025 will see voters go to the polls in no fewer than six Caribbean nations, while Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Honduras will also be staging presidential and legislative elections.
Latin America’s water challenge
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- Introduction
- Climate change and water availability
- How is water affecting transport and trade
- How is water affecting electricity generation
- Water issues surrounding existing industries
- Effects on plans to develop new industries
- Other issues surrounding water
- Recent developments in water governance
- CASE STUDY: Water issues threaten Panama Canal
- CASE STUDY: Chile’s national data centre plan risks inflaming tensions over water supplies
- What comes next?
- Conclusion
All too often taken for granted by those with easy access to clean supplies, water is increasingly a source of anxiety for households, policymakers and business leaders.