Weekly Report - 26 September 2024 (WR-24-38)

There is no love lost between Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Argentina’s President Javier Milei, who are still yet to meet, and their political convictions and foreign policy priorities, for the most part, diverge.... Read More

The standoff between Bolivia’s President Luis Arce and former president Evo Morales (2006-2019) may be approaching a climax.... Read More

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro began the current legislative period in July with an attempt to mend bridges with congress [WR-24-29].... Read More

Scheduled blackouts took place across Ecuador this week amid an ongoing energy crisis caused by low water levels at hydroelectric power stations.... Read More

Chile’s judiciary faces the most serious crisis in the 34 years since the return to democracy, according to Deputy Eric Aedo of the centrist Democracia Cristiana (DC).... Read More

Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) has agreed to name a legal representative in Brazil, fulfilling a court order issued last month by supreme court (STF) justice Alexandre de Moraes.... Read More

ARGENTINA | Blackouts.... Read More

Mexico’s ruling left-wing Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) unveiled its new executive committee at a party conference on 22 September.... Read More

Mexico’s federal senate approved a controversial constitutional reform to place the national guard (GN) under military command in the early hours of 25 September, following an overnight session.... Read More

Haiti’s Prime Minister Garry Conille has sought to provide reassurance that the country’s long overdue elections will take place next year.... Read More

“An anchor that chains us to the past and it prevents us from growing, from prospering and building a society which is based on the common good.” This was how Guatemala’s President Bernardo Arévalo described corruption in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on 24 September.... Read More

The Cuban economic crisis is grinding on.... Read More

The supreme court of Honduras has declared the employment and economic development zones (Zedes) to be unconstitutional.... Read More

“We have a dictatorship that is trying to steal an election, which persecutes its opposition and is indifferent to the exile of millions of its citizens,” Chile’s President Gabriel Boric said while discussing “the critical situation in Venezuela” during his speech to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on 24 September.... Read More

From speeches at the UN General Assembly... Read More