Weekly Report - 28 November 2024 (WR-24-47)

Uruguay’s Frente Amplio (FA) won the country’s presidential elections for the fourth time in its last five attempts on 24 November.... Read More

Peru’s energy and mining minister, Rómulo Mucho, was impeached on 26 November after being accused of mismanaging the country’s informal mining sector.... Read More

Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa marked his first anniversary in office on 23 November by releasing a video, which doubled as an unofficial re-election campaign ad, spelling out all of his achievements in government.... Read More

The recent opening of the Chancay mega-port in Peru has raised hopes of an economic uplift in neighbouring Bolivia, which is struggling with shortages of fuel and US dollars.... Read More

Brazil’s federal police (PF) filed two reports to the attorney general’s office (PGR) earlier this year recommending charges against former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023) for money laundering and falsifying vaccine records.... Read More

In solidarity with farmers in France, who have recently launched a fresh round of protests against the proposed free trade deal between the European Union (EU) and the Southern Common Market (Mercosur), the French supermarket group Carrefour announced its intention to stop importing meat from Mercosur countries.... Read More

There was good and bad news for President Gabriel Boric this last week.... Read More

They were expected, but they did not come.... Read More

BRAZIL | Current account deficit down in monthly terms.... Read More

The future of US-Mexico commercial relations has been the subject of much uncertainty since Donald Trump was elected to a second term in the White House on 5 November.... Read More

When Claudia Sheinbaum was elected as Mexico’s first-ever female president in June, it prompted hopes of a new era in which promoting women’s rights and addressing gender violence would take priority in Mexico’s political space.... Read More

MEXICO | Sheinbaum unveils water investment.... Read More

In less than a week the Nicaraguan government has proposed a wave of dictatorial “reforms” which would fundamentally change the constitution, extend presidential, police, and army terms in office, penalise companies that observe economic sanctions, and deny travel to those considered a “social risk”.... Read More

COSTA RICA | IFC invests in Costa Rican firm to boost access to medicines.... Read More

Haiti’s most powerful gang leader and self-styled warlord, Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Chérizier, felt the heat this week.... Read More

“I personally have nothing to hope for, my immediate future is the cemetery, but I am interested in the fate of young people, who when they are my age will live in a very different world.”... Read More