Weekly Report - 12 September 2024 (WR-24-36)

Tensions are running high as President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s highly controversial judicial reform initiative won congressional approval this week.... Read More

The faint hope that endured in the Venezuelan opposition following the disputed 28 July presidential election was all but extinguished on 7 September when its candidate, Edmundo González, went into exile in Spain.... Read More

Opposition strikes and protests broke out last week in Bolivia’s eastern region of Santa Cruz and some other areas of the country, hammering home an unusual complaint: government critics say they do not like the preliminary results of the 2024 population and housing census, which was held on 23 March.... Read More

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro submitted to congress the second tax reform package of his presidency on 10 September.... Read More

From southern Colombia to northern Argentina, much of South America is covered by swathes of black smoke, as forest and bush fires ravage across the continent.... Read More

Argentine President Javier Milei got his second bloody nose in just over a month when a corruption scandal forced him to fire the first official of his administration this week.... Read More

Thousands of supporters and allies of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023) joined him on Brazil’s Independence Day (7 September) for a demonstration on the Avenida Paulista, one of the main roads of São Paulo.... Read More

Since taking office in January 2023, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has made six changes to his cabinet.... Read More

BRAZIL | Government primary deficit down year-on-year.... Read More

Mexico’s President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum announced on 6 September who would be heading up the defence (Sedena) and navy (Semar) ministries in her government, which takes office on 1 October.... Read More

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Peru’s former president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) died of cancer on 11 September, at the age of 86.... Read More

“You are traitors…The Mexican judicial system has been at the service of the oligarchy, at the service of the bastard interests of foreigners that have financed the movements that you have provoked, even the violation of this congressional building, you answer to the traitor, Norma Piña [the president of the supreme court]…who protects the interests of foreigners that have plundered the resources of the Mexican people.”... Read More