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Weekly Report - 22 August 2024 (WR-24-33)
LEADER
Argentina’s media has gone into feeding frenzy mode over allegations that former president Alberto Fernández (2019-2023) subjected his partner, Fabiola Yáñez, to years of physical and psychological abuse.... Read More
ANDEAN COUNTRIES
The opposition’s strategy since Venezuela’s disputed 28 July presidential election has been to sustain the domestic pressure on President Nicolás Maduro with regular mass demonstrations, while also hoping that he can be swayed by diplomatic entreaties from his allies in Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil to release detailed voting data.... Read More
Ecuador’s Vice President Victoria Abad has accused President Daniel Noboa of committing “political gender violence” against her, in what the interior minister, Michele Sensi, described on 14 August as “a crude attempt at destabilisation, blatantly configuring an attempted coup d’état”.... Read More
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There will be no primary elections in Bolivia ahead of next year’s general election, after President Luis Arce promulgated a bill to scrap the primaries so that the electoral authorities can prioritise the holding of long overdue judicial elections and a parallel referendum.... Read More
BRAZIL & SOUTHERN CONE
Earlier this month Brazil’s political parties confirmed candidates to run in the municipal elections this October, and on 16 August the campaigning period officially commenced.... Read More
The tech giant X (formerly Twitter) has announced that it will cease operations in Brazil amid ongoing tensions with Brazil’s supreme court (STF) over content moderation.... Read More
Paraguay’s national police (PN) raided the home of national deputy Eulalio Gomes in the north-eastern city of Pedro Juan Caballero on 19 August.... Read More
MEXICO
Federal judges in Mexico went on strike on 21 August in protest against President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s proposed reform of the judicial system.... Read More
Mexico’s state of Sinaloa remains on high alert following the arrests of two top leaders of the Sinaloa drug trafficking organisation (DTO) in the US on 25 July.... Read More
CENTRAL AMERICA & CARIBBEAN
Dominican President Luis Abinader was sworn-in for a second term on 16 August after winning re-election.... Read More
Guatemala’s attorney general’s office is making a fresh bid to lift President Bernardo Arévalo’s immunity from prosecution so that he can be charged with corruption.... Read More
POSTSCRIPT
Former presidential candidate and leader of the right-wing populist Fuerza Popular (FP) party, Keiko Fujimori, had one of the corruption charges against her set aside by a court on 19 August.... Read More
“Alberto Fernández was not a good president.... Read More
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- Domestic abuse case further polarises Argentine society
- VENEZUELA: Cracks appear in opposition’s post-election plan
- ECUADOR: Battle resumes over vice presidency
- COLOMBIA: Petro tries new tack with ELN
- BOLIVIA: Primary elections called off
- BRAZIL: Local election campaigns kick off
- BRAZIL: Spat between X and supreme court escalates
- PARAGUAY-BRAZIL: Police kill lawmaker suspected of organised crime ties
- MEXICO: Judicial workers strike
- MEXICO: Sinaloa on high alert
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Abinader undertakes sweeping reforms
- GUATEMALA: Arévalo engaged in ‘lawfare’ with attorney general’s office
- Fujimori wins partial court victory in Peru
- Quotes of the week