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Weekly Report - 22 December 2016 (WR-16-50)

Last week, Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri had been on the brink of a humiliating defeat over an opposition bill proposing changes to the ‘impuesto a las ganancias’ payroll tax.

Weekly Report - 15 December 2016 (WR-16-49)

President Nicolás Maduro has taken on a new role – Saint Nicholas – assuring Venezuelan children that he will personally ensure that their toys are delivered on time this year.

Weekly Report - 01 December 2016 (WR-16-47)

The passing of Cuba’s revolutionary leader Fidel Castro was announced many times during his life, only to be refuted, often by a photo of him clutching a dated copy of the Communist party mouthpiece Granma.

Weekly Report - 24 November 2016 (WR-16-46)

Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet tried to take the heat off her beleaguered government this week by questioning the fact, that while serving as president, her predecessor Sebastián Piñera (2010-2014) bought shares in a Peruvian fishing company, Exalmar.

Weekly Report - 10 November 2016 (WR-16-44)

Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential elections creates significant uncertainty for Latin American governments but above all it poses major diplomatic and domestic policy challenges for the Mexican government led by President Enrique Peña Nieto.

Weekly Report - 20 October 2016 (WR-16-41)

Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has suffered a political setback as a corruption scandal has forced him to sack Carlos Moreno, his healthcare adviser, and dented his popularity ratings.

Weekly Report - 13 October 2016 (WR-16-40)

Argentina’s former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2007-2015) has launched her political comeback.

Weekly Report - 06 October 2016 (WR-16-39)

Colombia faces a period of acute political and economic uncertainty after a wafer-thin majority of voters rejected the peace accord with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) on 2 October.

Weekly Report - 29 September 2016 (WR-16-38)

“Welcome to democracy.” With these words Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos shook hands with the maximum leader of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc), ‘Timochenko’ (Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri), after both men signed the final peace accord with a ‘balígrafo’ (a pen crafted from a bullet) during a ceremony in Cartagena de Indias on 26 September attended by the great and the good.

Weekly Report - 15 September 2016 (WR-16-36)

Peru’s President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski is in China for his first official foreign visit this week as he seeks to attract investment to drive national development and economic growth.

Weekly Report - 08 September 2016 (WR-16-35)

It is sometimes claimed that a typical six-year Mexican presidency can be broken down into three periods of two years each.

Weekly Report - 25 August 2016 (WR-16-33)

“The day has come; we can finally say that everything is agreed,” Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos celebrated in an emotional televised address on 24 August.

Weekly Report - 07 July 2016 (WR-16-26)

The heads of state of the four full member countries of the Pacific Alliance trade bloc promised on 1 July to strive towards more inclusive growth and greater financial integration without repeating the mistakes that led to Brexit.

Weekly Report - 16 June 2016 (WR-16-23)

Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto and the federally ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) have come out fighting in the wake of the worst set of results in the party’s history in gubernatorial, state legislative and municipal elections on 5 June.

Weekly Report - 09 June 2016 (WR-16-22)

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski will become Peru’s 95th president on 28 July after defeating Keiko Fujimori by 50.1%-49.9% in the closest electoral contest in the country’s history.

Weekly Report - 19 May 2016 (WR-16-19)

While some in the Venezuelan opposition like to disparage President Nicolás Maduro as ‘the bus driver’ and mock his awkward efforts to ape the ways of his late predecessor, Hugo Chávez (1999-2013), Maduro, or at least those around him, learned one lesson well from the comandante: always to stay one step ahead of the enemy.

Weekly Report - 12 May 2016 (WR-16-18)

In a marathon session that started at 10AM on 11 May and finished just before 7AM the following day, Brazil’s federal senate voted by 55-22 in favour of initiating impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff.

Weekly Report - 28 April 2016 (WR-16-16)

Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos reached out beyond his ruling Unidad Nacional coalition this week to forge a “post-conflict cabinet” that features members of almost all of the country’s parties across the political divide.

Weekly Report - 21 April 2016 (WR-16-15)

During the vote to impeach Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff on 17 April, Joaquim Barbosa, the lead supreme court justice in the prosecution of the mensalão cash-for-votes scandal and one of the few elder statesmen to enjoy support from across the country’s political divide, voiced the thoughts of many when he wrote on Twitter: “It’s enough to make one weep for shame.” Regardless of the eventual outcome of the impeachment process, the spectacle of Brazil’s 513 federal congressional deputies casting their votes aloud in an atmosphere akin to a stand full of drunken football supporters will linger long in the collective memory and alienate yet further many Brazilians sceptical of the efficacy of their democracy.

Weekly Report - 07 April 2016 (WR-16-13)

Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos greeted the news that his government will soon be thrashing out a peace accord with the country’s second guerrilla group, Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), as confirmation that a definitive post-conflict settlement is within sight.

Weekly Report - 31 March 2016 (WR-16-12)

From the moment Air Force One touched down in Havana’s international airport and US President Barack Obama and his family disembarked into the rain to the sight of a greeting party in which Cuba’s President Raúl Castro was notoriously absent, the two heads of state vied to gain the upper hand.

Weekly Report - 03 March 2016 (WR-16-09)

Eduardo Cunha, the speaker of Brazil’s federal lower chamber of congress, is to become the first defendant in a supreme court trial of those accused in ‘Operation Car Wash’, the investigation into corruption at the state-controlled oil company Petrobras.

Weekly Report - 18 February 2016 (WR-16-07)

Pope Francis conducted a six-day tour of Mexico from 12 to 17 February, with an itinerary specifically designed to focus on the most persistent and pernicious problems facing the country: drug-trafficking and violence; poverty and marginalisation; and power and corruption.

Weekly Report - 21 January 2016 (WR-16-03)

“A gigantic step towards the end of the war.” This was the reaction of Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos to an accord struck in Cuba with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) on 19 January over international verification of a bilateral ceasefire and disarmament of the guerrilla group.

Weekly Report - 07 January 2016 (WR-16-01)

Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri might have refrained from direct criticism of his predecessor Cristina Fernández during his inaugural speech on 10 December but his actions since then speak louder than words.
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