Weekly Report - 05 September 2024 (WR-24-35)

It has not been a good week for Xiomara Castro, the left-wing president of Honduras.... Read More

Having refused to leave office despite signs that he lost the 28 July presidential election by a wide margin, Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro is reaching for devices that had hitherto lain unused in his toolkit of political repression.... Read More

Peru’s President Dina Boluarte replaced four of her cabinet ministers on 3 September, but did not touch the interior minister, Juan José Santiváñez, who has recently been at the centre of controversy.... Read More

Production was halted at one of the 247 oil wells in Ecuador’s Yasuní national park on 28 August, a year after a referendum in which voters backed a ban on drilling in the biodiversity hotspot.... Read More

Bolivia’s President Luis Arce was expelled from the ruling left-wing Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) on 3 September.... Read More

BOLIVIA | International reserves.... Read More

Despite warnings from Brazil’s supreme court (STF), the owner of tech giant X (formerly Twitter), Elon Musk, has refused to comply with court orders and appoint a legal representative in the country.... Read More

Argentina’s President Javier Milei redoubled his hardline stance on fiscal austerity this week by pushing back against widespread pressure to increase pension payments.... Read More

Paraguay’s government led by President Santiago Peña presented its first budget to congress on 30 August, and it was an ambitious one.... Read More

BRAZIL | Government submits 2025 budget proposal.... Read More

Federal deputies in Mexico voted to approve President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s judicial reform on 4 September.... Read More

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took to the Zócalo, the main square in Mexico City (CDMX), to deliver his sixth and final state-of-the-nation address, known as the ‘Informe’, on 1 September.... Read More

Thousands of people took to the streets in Costa Rica’s capital, San José, on 29 August to protest against falling investment in education.... Read More

PANAMA | Canal transits back to normal.... Read More

Since 1 September many Colombian truck drivers have been on strike over recent increases in fuel prices.... Read More

“The interference and interventionism of the United States, as well as its intention to direct the politics of Honduras through its Embassy and other representatives, is intolerable.... Read More