Weekly Report - 20 February 2025 (WR-25-07)

Since November, Brazil’s attorney general Paulo Gonet has had a police report on file which recommended pressing criminal charges against former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023) for alleged involvement in a plot to launch a miliary coup in 2022 [WR-24-47].... Read More

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro’s diplomatic tour of the Middle East, from which he returned on 16 February, came as his government was embroiled in unprecedented crisis at home.... Read More

As the dust settles on the first round of Ecuador’s election on 9 February, President Daniel Noboa appears to have been unnerved by the unexpectedly strong performance of Luisa González, the candidate for the left-wing opposition Revolución Ciudadana (RC), who he will face in the 13 April second round.... Read More

Addressing the Venezuela’s national assembly on 16 February President Nicolás Maduro announced plans for a constitutional referendum.... Read More

A late-night social media post on 14 February landed Argentina’s President Javier Milei in very hot water.... Read More

Paraguay’s lower chamber of congress voted unanimously on 18 February to accept the resignation of Orlando Arévalo, presented 10 days earlier.... Read More

Tensions are building within the ruling left-wing Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) over the controversial senator Miguel Ángel Yunes Márquez.... Read More

One of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s major campaign pledges was the construction of 1m new affordable homes.... Read More

The national security minister of Trinidad & Tobago, Fitzgerald Hinds, ordered an investigation this week into the disappearance of in excess of 25,000 rounds of ammunition from an army barracks.... Read More

Costa Rica’s judicial investigations agency (Organización de Investigación Judicial – OIJ) reported on 17 February that nine members of the national police force, Fuerza Pública, had been arrested after a suspect was beaten to death in a police cell.... Read More

Having angrily discarded an extradition treaty with the US last year, Honduran President Xiomara Castro has found herself asking for it to be reinstated; as a result, relations with the administration of her US peer Donald Trump may be set to improve.... Read More

Over 480 people were arrested in Panama City on 12 February, after protest demonstrations over plans to reform the social security agency, Caja de la Seguridad Social (CSS), turned violent.... Read More

El Salvador’s legislative assembly has voted to amend the constitution to eliminate the state financing of political parties competing in electoral processes.... Read More

“Allied with other individuals, including civilians and military personnel, they attempted to prevent, in a co-ordinated manner, the result of the 2022 presidential elections from being fulfilled.”... Read More