Weekly Report - 01 February 2024 (WR-24-04)

Venezuela’s supreme court (TSJ) upheld a ban this week on María Corina Machado competing in the presidential elections for the opposition coalition Plataforma Unitaria Democrática (PUD), barring her from holding public office until 2036.... Read More

Peru registered the steepest decline in terms of ranking in the annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) table released on 30 January by the Berlin-based NGO Transparency International (TI).... Read More

Ecuador’s constitutional court (CC) delivered a setback to President Daniel Noboa’s sweeping security plans on 26 January, when it rejected nine of the 20 referendum questions that were proposed by the head of state at the start of the year.... Read More

Roadblocks remain in place on key highways around Bolivia, despite pleas by President Luis Arce’s government for demonstrators to stand down now that progress is being made towards holding overdue judicial elections.... Read More

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The federal police (PF) has launched a new series of investigations, dubbed Operation ‘Vigilância Aproximada’, targeting a network within Brazil’s national intelligence agency (Abin) that allegedly carried out illegal surveillance activities during the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023).... Read More

Demonstrators took to the streets in Brumadinho, a municipality in Minas Gerais state which suffered a high-profile environmental disaster on 25 January 2019 caused by a burst tailings dam owned by Brazilian mining giant Vale.... Read More

BRAZIL | Unemployment down.... Read More

The leaking of the personal data of hundreds of journalists from a government database in Mexico has raised renewed concerns about the dangers facing media workers in the country.... Read More

Mexico’s federal attorney general’s office (FGR) has announced a new lead in the investigation into the murder of Luis Donaldo Colosio, a presidential candidate who was assassinated almost three decades ago.... Read More

The three parties making up the Fuerza y Corazón por México opposition coalition have decided on the candidates who will appear on party electoral lists to compete for seats in the federal senate and lower chamber of congress in June.... Read More

A Kenyan high court has dealt a major setback to the proposed multinational security support (MSS) mission to Haiti, requested by Haiti’s caretaker prime minister, Ariel Henry, and greenlighted by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) last October [WR-23-40] after Kenya had offered to lead it with a 1,000-strong police deployment.... Read More

Guatemala’s new president Bernardo Arévalo has finally held a face-to-face meeting with the discredited attorney general, María Consuelo Porras.... Read More

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro declared a natural disaster this week, and appealed for international aid as forest fires ravage the country.... Read More

“Maduro and his criminal system chose the worst route for them: fraudulent elections.... Read More