Weekly Report - 24 April 2025 (WR-25-16)

The most influential Latin American on the global stage, Pope Francis, the first non-European pontiff, died on 21 April.... Read More

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro and congress are getting ready for another round in the boxing ring.... Read More

Mexico’s government has brushed aside claims from the Ecuadorean authorities that Mexican criminal groups are plotting to assassinate President Daniel Noboa – allegedly on behalf of his defeated rivals in the recent presidential election.... Read More

Peruvian prosecutors have taken the first step towards bringing corruption charges against former attorney general Patricia Benavides (2022-2023).... Read More

Chile’s right-wing political parties will not compete in primary elections on 29 June, leaving the stage open for left-wing parties to dominate the election campaign.... Read More

After Chile’s President Gabriel Boric hosted his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Santiago last year, Lula returned the favour in Brasília.... Read More

Brazilian federal deputy Glauber Braga, a member of the left-wing Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (PSOL), has ended a nine-day hunger strike in protest against a motion for his impeachment which has made progress in the lower chamber of congress.... Read More

ARGENTINA | Strong growth.... Read More

Migration can be added to the list of issues driving tensions between Mexico’s government led by Claudia Sheinbaum and the US administration of President Donald Trump.... Read More

The head of Mexico’s senate and member of the ruling left-wing Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena), Gerardo Fernández Noroña, has admitted that some of the candidates competing in June’s judicial elections do not comply with the constitutional requirement of “integrity”.... Read More

MEXICO | Recession? President Claudia Sheinbaum has rejected the most recent 2025 GDP growth forecast from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which shows Mexico’s economy contracting in 2025.... Read More

Two authoritarian leaders, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador and President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, have spent much of the last week scoring points as they argue over a possible prisoner exchange.... Read More

On a visit to Spain, Nasry Asfura, the candidate of the right-wing Partido Nacional (PN), set out his pitch for the Honduran presidential elections due in November this year.... Read More

PANAMA | Way forward on mining? In a speech to business lobby group CCIAP on 23 April, Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino said he was seeking a “real association” to resolve the copper mine dispute with Minera Panama, a subsidiary of First Quantum Minerals (FQM) of Canada.... Read More

Former president Ricardo Martinelli (2009-2014), who has spent the last year in self-imposed asylum in the Nicaraguan embassy in Panama, is pushing for an amnesty law which would allow him to step free from a 10-year prison sentence for money laundering.... Read More

“It is with profound sorrow that I learnt this sad morning that Pope Francis, Jorge Bergoglio, passed away today and is now resting in peace.... Read More