Weekly Report - 17 April 2025 (WR-25-15)

Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa has cruised into a second term after an unexpectedly decisive victory over Luisa González in the second round of presidential elections on 13 April.... Read More

Bolivia’s interior ministry released a video on 11 April making fresh allegations about the events of 26 June 2024, when a group of soldiers under the command of General Juan José Zúñiga stormed the presidential palace in what President Luis Arce describes as a coup attempt, and his critics dismiss as an act of political theatre.... Read More

The sub-commission for constitutional accusations of Peru’s conservative-dominated congress has dismissed an investigation into claims that President Dina Boluarte accepted Rolex watches and valuable jewellery as bribes.... Read More

Primero Justicia (PJ), a member of Venezuela’s principal opposition coalition, has expelled two-time presidential candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski for agreeing to take part in the impending regional and congressional elections due to be held on 25 May, thereby flouting its call for a boycott.... Read More

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro announced on 15 April that he will declare a sanitary and economic emergency in response to an outbreak of yellow fever that is concentrated in the central department of Tolima.... Read More

Argentina’s President Javier Milei took the momentous step of lifting currency restrictions and partially floating the peso’s official exchange rate this week.... Read More

The field for Chile’s presidential elections in November is growing ever larger.... Read More

Just over half of the 513 members of Brazil’s lower chamber of congress have signed an official request to fast-track the review of a bill that proposes pardoning the far-right rioters who stormed the seats of government on 8 January 2023.... Read More

Inflation figures for March published by Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) showed a monthly inflation rate of 0.56%, down from 1.31% in February.... Read More

The Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil (Apib), the national umbrella organisation for indigenous movements, published an open letter on 11 April which expressed concern over land rights.... Read More

BRAZIL | Vale’s iron production decreases.... Read More

Water has become the new frontier for tensions between Mexico and the US.... Read More

Mexico’s government has spoken out after the US Department of Commerce announced it was withdrawing from a 2019 agreement governing imports of fresh tomatoes from Mexico.... Read More

“I mean, the question is preposterous, how can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I don’t have the power to return him to the United States.” El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele gave this unequivocal response to a question posed by the press about whether he planned to return Kilmar Ábrego García - a Salvadorean citizen who the US government admits was wrongly deported to the country - while sitting alongside his US peer Donald Trump in the Oval Office during an official visit to Washington this week.... Read More

Venezuela’s Vice President Delcy Rodríguez accused neighbouring Guyana on 12 April of “war-like intentions” after the government in Georgetown signed a memorandum of understanding with the UK on defence cooperation.... Read More

“Today Ecuador has voted for a young president working to improve the lives of the Ecuadorean people.... Read More