Weekly Report - 04 March 2021 (WR-21-09)

By any yardstick, the result of El Salvador’s legislative elections on 28 February was a remarkable achievement for President Nayib Bukele.... Read More

In the latest dispute over economic sanctions, on 24 February Venezuela’s foreign minister Jorge Arreaza announced a 72-hour expulsion order requiring the European Union (EU) ambassador, Isabel Brilhante, to leave the country.... Read More

The head of the joint command of Peru’s armed forces has been implicated in a fuel theft ring.... Read More

ECUADOR | Central bank reform.... Read More

“Brazil is experiencing, perplexed, the worst moment of the public health crisis provoked by Covid-19 [the coronavirus pandemic].” So starts an open letter from Brazil’s national council of state health secretaries (Conass), published on 1 March.... Read More

President Alberto Fernández has had a couple of difficult weeks.... Read More

Uruguay’s President Luis Lacalle Pou completed his first year in office on 1 March.... Read More

CHILE | Codelco profits.... Read More

Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador held a virtual meeting with his opposite number Joe Biden on 1 March emphasising the positive aspects of the Mexico-US bilateral relationship and leaving some of the points of friction to be dealt with at a later date.... Read More

Ahead of the mid-term congressional and gubernatorial elections on 6 June, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador seems to be politically indestructible, with an approval rating that refuses to dip below 60%.... Read More

MEXICO | Banxico intervenes in currency market.... Read More

The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic had already renewed focus on one of Cuba’s signature programmes: sending healthcare professionals around the world [WR-20-14].... Read More

A massive prison break last week involving the escape of one of Haiti’s most notorious gang leaders, Arnel Joseph, is serving as the latest sign of the country’s rapidly deteriorating security situation.... Read More

COSTA RICA | IMF approves EFF.... Read More

Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed concern last week about attacks on Colombia’s transitional justice system (JEP).... Read More

“This has been the most tainted process in our country’s democratic electoral history; we have not faced a rival but a campaign waged by the state.... Read More