Weekly Report - 31 October 2024 (WR-24-43)

Uruguay’s ruling multi-colour coalition suffered a setback in presidential and congressional elections on 27 October.... Read More

Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales (2006-2019) came within a whisker of being shot on 27 October as bullets tore through his car and wounded his driver.... Read More

Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa said on 27 October that the country should have largely overcome its year-long energy crisis by December, as new energy plants begin to come online.... Read More

Predictions that during municipal elections held on 26 and 27 October the far-right would inflict a crushing electoral punishment on President Gabriel Boric’s ruling left-of-centre coalition failed to materialise.... Read More

Since the first round of Brazil’s municipal elections on 6 October, the Brazilian media has highlighted the strong results for centrist and conservative parties and the disappointing performances of left-wing mayoral candidates.... Read More

Argentina’s big transport unions held a 24-hour strike on 30 October to back demands for higher pay and to oppose President Javier Milei’s policy of shrinking the public sector.... Read More

On 30 October Mexico’s lower chamber of congress approved a bill to prohibit courts from challenging or suspending constitutional reforms passed by congress.... Read More

Mexican journalists Mauricio Cruz Solís and Patricia Ramírez González were killed within 24 hours of each other on 29 and 30 October.... Read More

“Justice is beginning to arrive, the dark cycle is going to end.” This was the response by Guatemala’s President Bernardo Arévalo to a judge’s decision to transfer José Rubén Zamora, a prominent journalist and founder of investigative daily elPeriódico, to house arrest after more than 800 days behind bars.... Read More

Leslie Voltaire, the current pro-tempore president of Haiti’s nine-member transitional presidential council (TPC), has written to United Nations (UN) Secretary General António Guterres formally requesting that the Kenyan-led multinational security support mission to Haiti (MSS) be transformed into a traditional UN peacekeeping force.... Read More

President Xi Jinping of China, who will be in Peru for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit, is expected to attend the official opening of the Chancay mega-port alongside his host, President Dina Boluarte, on 14 November.... Read More

“I don’t know if they were soldiers or police.... Read More