End of preview - This article contains approximately 569 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options
Back
Weekly Report - 19 September 2024 (WR-24-37)
MEXICO: Judicial reform becomes law
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. López Obrador celebrated the passage of the judicial reform as a defining principle and legacy of his ‘fourth transformation’ government. Provisions such as the direct election of judges have caused widespread controversy, however, fuelling tensions with the supreme court (SCJN), the business community, the political opposition, and, notably, the US embassy. The incoming administration of Claudia Sheinbaum will have to deal with the fallout.
- Petro cries coup in Colombia
- VENEZUELA: Foreigners arrested as González concedes ‘under duress’
- BOLIVIA: Tensions soar over ‘March to Save Bolivia’
- ECUADOR: Noboa opens door to return of foreign military bases
- ARGENTINA: Milei faces growing headwinds in congress
- CHILE: Largest steel plant closes
- BRAZIL: The ‘Marçal effect’ in São Paulo mayoral race
- TRACKING TRENDS
- MEXICO: Judicial reform becomes law
- MEXICO: Sinaloa violence will pose challenge for Sheinbaum
- HONDURAS: Environmental activist shot dead
- EL SALVADOR: Bukele has a zero-deficit epiphany
- PANAMA: Mulino proceeds with social security reform
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Government on cost-cutting drive
- Jamaica leads way with troop deployment to Haiti
- Quotes of the week