Weekly Report - 19 September 2024 (WR-24-37)

President Xiomara Castro did it in Honduras this month.... Read More

Seven foreigners have been arrested in Venezuela and accused of plotting to topple President Nicolás Maduro’s government.... Read More

Former president Evo Morales (2006-2019) and some 5,000 of his supporters embarked on 17 September on a so-called ‘March to Save Bolivia’.... Read More

US troops could potentially return to Ecuador in the near future, having been forced to leave the country in 2009 under the government of former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017).... Read More

With no meaningful experience in governing and only a miniscule number of seats in congress, it was never going to be easy for Argentina’s President Javier Milei to govern.... Read More

The Compañía Siderúrgica Huachipato (CSH), Chile’s largest steelmaker, shut down its blast furnace, steel mill and continuous casting operation on 16 September, thereby beginning its complete shutdown some 74 years after its launch.... Read More

In August and September, when national broadcasters began holding debates between candidates running for the mayorship of Brazil’s largest city, São Paulo, political pundits suggested that the quality of political discourse had deteriorated due to the presence of the brash, confrontational, far-right populist candidate Pablo Marçal.... Read More

BRAZIL | Government and markets raise growth forecasts.... Read More

With barely two weeks until he leaves office, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador promulgated the most contentious reform of his six-year term on 15 September, which marked Mexico’s Grito de Independencia.... Read More

Brutal infighting is raging within one of Mexico’s largest drug trafficking organisations.... Read More

Juan López, an environmental activist, was shot dead in his car after going to church on 14 September in his home town of Tocoa, in the Caribbean department of Colón.... Read More

At an Independence Day ceremony on 15 September attended by 18,000 troops, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele announced his next big thing: a zero-deficit budget for 2025.... Read More

Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino is laying the groundwork for a major reform of the state social security system Caja de Seguro Social (CSS), a longstanding problem for successive governments.... Read More

Dominican President Luis Abinader unveiled plans on 16 September to save public funds through restructuring public administration, among other measures.... Read More

A small contingent of troops from Jamaica and Belize has arrived in Haiti to join the Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission led by Kenya, which deployed 400 soldiers in June to combat the armed gangs that hold sway on the island.... Read More

“They had to cheat, they know nothing but robbery and murder…nor have they read any books other than how to steal or how to kill…two years have passed and they have not approved any project.”... Read More