Weekly Report - 15 May 2025 (WR-25-19)

Diplomatic protocol suggests that ministerial-level meetings should, like this month’s China–Celac Forum reunion in Beijing, remain at that level (specifically it was intended for foreign ministers).... Read More

With his position growing increasingly untenable, Peru’s prime minister Gustavo Adrianzén resigned on 13 May.... Read More

Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa declared three days of national mourning following the massacre on 9 May of 11 soldiers in Orellana province, near the Colombian border.... Read More

By announcing on 13 May that he would not be a candidate in the August general elections, Bolivia’s President Luis Arce may have given a new lease of life to the feuding Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS).... Read More

The most striking thing about Uruguay’s local elections on 11 May was a voter who did not turn up at the ballot box.... Read More

Argentina’s President Javier Milei will go head-to-head with former president Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) in elections on 18 May.... Read More

After 24 years as a member of the centre-right Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB), the governor of Rio Grande do Sul state, Eduardo Leite, has left the party and joined the Partido Social Democrático (PSD), a big tent party which has grown in influence since it was founded in 2011.... Read More

BRAZIL | Coffee exports down.... Read More

Mexico’s government led by President Claudia Sheinbaum insists it enjoys fluid and constant communication with the US administration of President Donald Trump.... Read More

On 1 June citizens in the Mexican states of Veracruz and Durango will vote in municipal elections, electing over 250 new municipal mayors as well as over 1,000 other local positions.... Read More

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On 14 May Costa Rica’s President Rodrigo Chaves made little of a wave of 22 raids and arrests that had been ordered the previous day, as part of an investigation into corruption in an airport contract.... Read More

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | More Haiti support.... Read More

Eduardo Torres, a lawyer and activist for the Venezuelan human rights NGO Provea, was arrested on 13 May accused by Attorney General Tarek William Saab of plotting acts of violence ahead of the regional and legislative elections on 25 May.... Read More

“China is often portrayed as an enemy of global trade.... Read More