Weekly Report - 10 October 2024 (WR-24-40)

The first round of Brazil’s municipal elections on 6 October produced strong performances from big tent parties such as the Partido Social Democrático (PSD) and the Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (MDB), as well as for the right-wing party of former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023), the Partido Liberal (PL).... Read More

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro claimed that a coup was afoot on 8 October.... Read More

Transport workers went on strike in Peru’s capital Lima on 10 October for the second time in two weeks, as they stepped up their demands for tougher action against extortionists.... Read More

Argentina’s President Javier Milei is playing a dangerous game.... Read More

It is no exaggeration to say that Chile’s student loan system was the making of President Gabriel Boric.... Read More

Mexico’s new public security minister, Omar García Harfuch, unveiled the national security strategy of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s government on 8 October.... Read More

Former minister for Haitians living abroad Leslie Voltaire (2004) has assumed the six-month rotating presidency of Haiti’s nine-member transitional presidential council (TPC) six months early.... Read More

Unlike the previous round of judicial appointments, due in 2019 but not made until late last year [WR-23-47], Guatemala’s legislature has met the deadline to appoint new supreme court (CSJ) and appellate court judges for a five-year term.... Read More

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele is not used to facing protest action.... Read More

Edmundo González, the exiled opposition candidate widely believed to have won Venezuela’s 28 July presidential election, declared on 4 October that he will return to Caracas to be inaugurated as president on 10 January, five days before the formal end of Christmas festivities in the country.... Read More

“It has formalised charges against me.... Read More