Weekly Report - 22 May 2025 (WR-25-20)

Expectations that President Luis Arce was seeking to bridge the divide in Bolivia’s ruling left-wing Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) by dropping his plans for re-election were confounded on 16 May when one of his closest confidants, Interior Minister Eduardo del Castillo, was proclaimed the party’s presidential candidate.... Read More

Colombia’s government has doubled down following the senate’s rejection on 14 May of a referendum on labour reform.... Read More

In a probable sign of things to come, Ecuador’s largest indigenous movement is up in arms about a bill sent to the national assembly by President Daniel Noboa designed to strengthen the hand of the security forces against organised crime.... Read More

The outbreak of bird flu on a commercial poultry farm in Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul is bad news on several counts.... Read More

The central state of Goiás has taken a lead in Brazil to set rules on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) that it hopes will give it a competitive advantage but also make it safer for public and private users.... Read More

Never have elections to renew half of the seats in the City of Buenos Aires (Caba) legislature attracted so much interest or seen so many column inches expended on them as those that took place on 18 May.... Read More

The Yacyretá binational hydroelectric complex on the Paraná waterway has long been a source of tension between Paraguay and Argentina.... Read More

CHILE | Codelco partners with Rio Tinto on lithium project.... Read More

A fatal attack on two key aides to Clara Brugada, the mayor of Mexico City (CDMX), has sent shockwaves through the left-wing Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena), which has ruled the capital since 2018.... Read More

A new chapter in US-Mexico relations got underway on 19 May as President Claudia Sheinbaum received the credentials of US President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Mexico, Ronald Johnson.... Read More

Haiti’s prime minister, Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, called for “national unity” on 18 May to help pave the way for a constitutional referendum to be held and “free, inclusive, and credible” elections.... Read More

The arrest of a prominent human rights lawyer in El Salvador has triggered accusations from international human rights organisations that President Nayib Bukele is intensifying a crackdown on critics, emboldened by his alliance with US President Donald Trump.... Read More

Uruguay’s left-wing Frente Amplio (FA) coalition will govern the department of Lavalleja for the first time in its history, breaking the uninterrupted 35-year stranglehold on power of the centre-right Partido Nacional (PN, Blancos).... Read More

“Only the people can tell me to withdraw my candidacy.... Read More