Weekly Report - 11 July 2024 (WR-24-27)

Argentina’s President Javier Milei presided over a ceremony on 9 July which he billed as “a turning point” in his quest to revive a “golden era” lost in the mists of time.... Read More

The campaign period for Venezuela’s 28 July presidential election officially started on 4 July, although in reality President Nicolás Maduro and the opposition coalition Plataforma Unitaria Democrática (PUD), represented by Edmundo González, have been campaigning for months.... Read More

Ecuador’s opposition-controlled national assembly is playing a balancing act as it tries to dent President Daniel Noboa’s popularity ahead of the general elections scheduled for February 2025 without appearing like it is acting against the national interest.... Read More

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro suffered a setback this week when his proposal for a constituent assembly to redraft the constitution met with resounding opposition.... Read More

ECUADOR | Noboa claims economic progress.... Read More

Argentina’s President Javier Milei made his first visit to Brazil on 6 July since taking office last December - but he did not travel to Brasília to meet any government officials.... Read More

BRAZIL | Transpetro launches tender for ships.... Read More

President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum may have named fewer ministers in her latest cabinet announcement on 4 July than in previous rounds [WR-24-26], but the list contained some of the biggest appointments yet.... Read More

The sweeping judicial reform proposal being pursued by Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is causing significant friction.... Read More

MEXICO | Sheinbaum announces business council.... Read More

The sentencing this week of anti-corruption prosecutor Virginia Laparra, on charges widely considered trumped up, has drawn international outrage.... Read More

Godfrey Otunge, the officer in charge of the Kenyan contingent of the multinational security support mission (MSS) to Haiti, and Normil Rameau, the head of Haiti’s police (PNd’H), have given their first press conference since a deployment of 400 Kenyan MSS members who arrived in Haiti last month [WR-24-25].... Read More

When Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel delivered his closing speech to the two-day plenary of the central committee of the Partido Comunista de Cuba (PCC) this week he made it clear that one of the government’s overriding concerns was boosting domestic agricultural production.... Read More

Bolivia officially became the fifth member state of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) on 5 July, when President Luis Arce promulgated a bill to join the trade bloc.... Read More

“The breaking points in the history of a nation are not moments of peace and calm but moments of difficulty and conflict when everything seems upside down.... Read More