Weekly Report - 04 July 2024 (WR-24-26)

The long-awaited trial of Keiko Fujimori for money laundering is finally underway in Peru.... Read More

One week after he appeared to stave off a military uprising, Bolivia’s President Luis Arce is facing mounting accusations that he fabricated a coup attempt to boost his popularity ahead of next year’s presidential election.... Read More

Discussions between President Nicolás Maduro’s government and the US unexpectedly resumed on 3 July, just three weeks before the 28 July presidential election.... Read More

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro has announced a drip feed of cabinet changes over the course of this week, the most significant of which was at the interior ministry.... Read More

Argentina’s President Javier Milei has the definitive approval he has been seeking since taking office last December.... Read More

Paraguay’s President Santiago Peña delivered his first state-of-the-nation address to congress on 1 July.... Read More

Uruguay’s primary elections on 30 June confirmed that the country’s next president is likely to be one of two candidates: Yamandú Orsi, of the main left-wing Frente Amplio (FA) opposition coalition, or Álvaro Delgado, of President Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou’s centre-right Partido Nacional (PN, Blancos), the party which enjoys most support within the ruling five-party coalition.... Read More

From 6 July until the first round of municipal elections on 6 October, restrictions will be placed on mayoral hopefuls holding public office from using their current roles to unfairly benefit their campaigns.... Read More

BRAZIL | Government plans spending cuts.... Read More

Mexico’s President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum revealed five more members of her incoming cabinet on 27 June, adding to the seven already confirmed [WR-24-25].... Read More

Members of the judiciary have begun discussing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s proposed judicial reform in open forums with legislators.... Read More

José Raúl Mulino has been sworn-in as Panama’s new president for a five-year term.... Read More

For the second time in the space of six months, the centre-left People’s United Party (PUP) government of Prime Minister Johnny Briceño has imposed a state of emergency for 90 days in Belize.... Read More

A US judge has handed down a 45-year prison sentence for drug trafficking and related weapons offences to Honduras’s former president Juan Orlando Hernández (2014-2022), to conclude a swift prosecution process.... Read More

“If he wants to practice politics, he should register as a candidate.”... Read More