Weekly Report - 11 April 2024 (WR-24-14)

Mexico has secured overwhelming support in the Organization of American States (OAS) to condemn Ecuador’s forcible entry into the Mexican embassy in Quito on 5 April to seize Jorge Glas, the former Ecuadorean vice president (2013-2017), who faces corruption charges but had been granted political asylum.... Read More

Colombian President Gustavo Petro appears hard-set on a collision course with congress and opposition parties.... Read More

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PERU | Attacks on gold mine in Pataz continue despite state of emergency.... Read More

Argentina’s President Javier Milei visited Ushuaia, the capital of the southernmost province of Tierra del Fuego, on 4 April to meet the commander of the US Southern Command (Southcom), General Laura Richardson.... Read More

A public spat over the past week between the billionaire owner of social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Elon Musk, and Brazilian supreme court (STF) justice Alexandre de Moraes has inflamed the already polarised debates in Brazil regarding the regulation of ‘big tech’.... Read More

The centre-right Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB) was once a political powerhouse in Brazil’s largest city, São Paulo.... Read More

BRAZIL | Monthly inflation decelerates.... Read More

Claudia Sheinbaum emerged unscathed from Mexico’s first presidential debate on 7 April.... Read More

MEXICO | Finance minister upbeat on Mexican economy.... Read More

President Nayib Bukele took to social media on 28 March to celebrate the second anniversary of the introduction of a state of exception in El Salvador, replete with a slick promotional video highlighting the security accomplishments of his government.... Read More

The nine-member transitional presidential council (TPC) has finalised a political agreement which would provide the framework of a 22-month transitional government in Haiti.... Read More

Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel has blamed the tightening of the US “blockade” for the “difficult situation” endured by Cuba in obtaining basic products on the list of subsidised rations.... Read More

Less than 100 days after taking office, Guatemala’s President Bernardo Arévalo has sacked his first minister, María José Iturbide.... Read More

Stung by criticism of its migration policy, the Panamanian government claimed this week that it was motivated first and foremost by humanitarian impulses, which were complemented by national security considerations.... Read More

COSTA RICA | Exports and investment booming.... Read More

Brazil’s federal government launched an environmental initiative on 9 April which aims to deepen cooperation on anti-deforestation efforts with local mayors in the Amazon region, although not all those invited to join the programme have agreed to participate.... Read More

“I have made exceptional decisions to protect national security, the rule of law, and the dignity of a people that rejects any type of immunity.... Read More