Weekly Report - 05 June 2025 (WR-25-22)

A “complete success” is how Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum described the country’s unprecedented, mammoth judicial elections, which took place on 1 June.... Read More

As was to be expected, Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales (2006-2019) has not taken his exclusion from the August general elections lying down.... Read More

This week the conflict between Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, who is demanding a referendum on his proposed labour reforms, and the senate, which has already turned down his request, seemed to be reaching its maximum tension point.... Read More

President Daniel Noboa has taken a key step towards undoing one of the defining legacies of his left-wing predecessor Rafael Correa (2007-2017) – the ban on foreign military bases that was enshrined in Ecuador’s 2008 constitution.... Read More

In the past few weeks, Peru has seen an uptick of protests and social conflict.... Read More

... Read More

President Gabriel Boric delivered his final official state-of-the-nation address to congress on 1 June.... Read More

That Argentina’s former president Cristina Fernández (2007-2015) would decide to run in elections this year was never in doubt after a bill designed to bar her from standing, Ficha Limpia, fell one vote short of approval by the senate last month [WR-25-19].... Read More

International credit ratings agency Moody’s has lowered Brazil’s credit outlook from ‘positive’ to ‘stable’.... Read More

Supreme court (STF) justice Alexandre de Moraes issued a preventive arrest warrant on 4 June for federal deputy Carla Zambelli, of the right-wing Partido Liberal (PL).... Read More

BRAZIL | Industrial production stagnant in April.... Read More

Jennifer Geerlings-Simons will become Suriname’s first female president after her main opposition party, the populist Nationale Democratische Partij (NDP), forged a coalition with five other parties to form a government.... Read More

“I would rather they call me a dictator than to see Salvadoreans killed in the streets,” El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said during his state-of-the-nation address on 1 June to the legislative assembly, which is controlled by his personalist Nuevas Ideas (NI) party, to mark the start of the second year of his second term in power.... Read More

Local elections took place on 1 June in the states of Veracruz and Durango to coincide with Mexico’s first judicial elections.... Read More

“They must provide an example…of a profound transformation of the judiciary…that justice is for all in Mexico.... Read More