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Weekly Report - 18 June 2020 (WR-20-24)
MEXICO: Public questions pandemic response
The insistence by the government led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak is under control and that Mexico can start easing containment measures and reactivating its economy has met with another wave of public protests, with even some allies expressing doubts. Should the epidemiological situation fail to improve, the López Obrador administration and ruling Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) risk losing the public’s faith ahead of elections next year.
- Political accord salvages rough week for Piñera
- BOLIVIA-ECUADOR: Protests in the time of Covid
- VENEZUELA: Elections thrown into disarray
- BRAZIL: Anti-democratic acts exacerbate tensions
- BRAZIL: Governors threatened by corruption claims
- ARGENTINA: Still playing for time
- TRACKING TRENDS
- MEXICO: Government taken to court over ‘electrolinazo’
- MEXICO: Public questions pandemic response
- GUYANA: Opposition edges closer to power
- EL SALVADOR: Lockdown eases but institutional tensions persist
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Extending the state of emergency
- HONDURAS: A testing time for Hernández
- Peru’s Vizcarra tables ambitious plan to drive growth
- Quotes of the week