Weekly Report - 06 June 2024 (WR-24-22)

Claudia Sheinbaum will become Mexico’s first-ever female head of state after winning the presidential election by a landslide on 2 June.... Read More

Colombia’s government announced this week that it will begin peace negotiations with Segunda Marquetalia, a dissident group from the demobilised Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrillas.... Read More

Truck drivers blocked roads around Bolivia for two days from 3-4 June in protest at shortages of fuel and US dollars.... Read More

Peru’s President Dina Boluarte declared last September that tackling insecurity was her top priority.... Read More

Chile’s President Gabriel Boric won some opposition applause during the first two-thirds of his third state-of-the-nation report to congress in Valparaíso on 1 June, but the only clapping during the final third of his speech came from members of his ruling left-wing coalition.... Read More

Argentina’s President Javier Milei has gone on the offensive to defend one of the most powerful figures in his cabinet, Sandra Pettovello, who is embroiled in a scandal surrounding the distribution of food to soup kitchens.... Read More

Cármen Lúcia Antunes Rocha, a judge on the superior electoral court (TSE) who also sits on the supreme court (STF), was sworn in on 3 June as the next TSE president.... Read More

Brazil’s senate approved legislation on 5 June which proposes imposing an import tax on cheap items purchased from international e-commerce and fast fashion companies.... Read More

“A dictatorship is born”.... Read More

While the new left-of-centre government led by President Bernardo Arévalo may be struggling with regard to one core anti-corruption promise – removing the discredited attorney general, María Consuelo Porras [WR-24-19] - it has been able to claim success in relation to other aspects.... Read More

Venezuela’s withdrawal of its invitation for European Union (EU) electoral observers to monitor the 28 July presidential election has been followed by announcements from the Colombian and Brazilian governments that they will not be sending observation missions as planned either.... Read More

“In the 200 years of the republic, I will become the first female president of Mexico.”... Read More