Weekly Report - 13 February 2025 (WR-25-06)

Ecuador’s presidential elections will go to a second round on 13 April.... Read More

Colombia’s government is adrift after President Gustavo Petro requested the resignation of his ministerial team on 9 February, in the wake of a televised cabinet meeting that laid bare the dysfunction of his administration [WR-25-05].... Read More

Two aeroplanes operated by Venezuela’s state-owned airline Conviasa departed from El Paso in the US state of Texas on 10 February carrying an estimated 190 undocumented Venezuelans, who were being deported from the US, back to Caracas.... Read More

Paraguay’s entire institutional system is reeling from the revelation of an ever-widening corruption and influence peddling scandal embroiling members of congress, senior officials of key government agencies, prosecutors, and judges.... Read More

Brazil’s score in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released by anti-corruption NGO Transparency International (TI) has decreased for the second consecutive year.... Read More

A constitutional amendment proposal (PEC) submitted to the lower chamber of congress proposes changing Brazil from a presidential republic to a semi-presidential system.... Read More

Argentina’s President Javier Milei received a fillip on 6 February when the lower chamber of congress voted in favour of a bill that suspends primary elections (Paso) this year.... Read More

BRAZIL | Inflation slows in January.... Read More

Another week has come with another tariff announcement from US President Donald Trump.... Read More

The killing of five people in a borough on the south-eastern edge of Mexico City (CDMX) has raised scrutiny on the security situation in the capital.... Read More

MEXICO | Industrial production up in 2024.... Read More

The security ministers of Panama and Costa Rica, Frank Ábrego and Mario Zamora respectively, signed an agreement on 11 February to allow undocumented migrants transiting through the two countries to be deported in a southerly direction.... Read More

US President Donald Trump’s temporary shutdown of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) for review and possibly drastic reorganisation has been strongly welcomed by Nayib Bukele, his opposite number in El Salvador.... Read More

Peruvian prosecutors are investigating the murder on 10 February of Óscar Medelius, a deputy from 1995-2000 for the right-wing Cambio Noventa-Nueva Mayoría which was aligned with the late authoritarian president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000).... Read More

“I am proud of the way in which the great majority of Ecuadoreans behaved in these elections.... Read More