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Weekly Report - 06 May 2021 (WR-21-18)
LEADER
If there were any remaining doubt about President Nayib Bukele’s commitment to democratic norms in El Salvador they were removed on 1 May.... Read More
ANDEAN COUNTRIES
After five days of mass protests across Colombia, on 2 May President Iván Duque announced that he had ordered the withdrawal of the government’s divisive tax reform bill, which was swiftly followed by the resignation of its architect, the finance minister, Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera.... Read More
A new national electoral council (CNE) was formally installed in Venezuela on 4 May.... Read More
Keiko Fujimori has narrowed the lead held by Pedro Castillo ahead of the second round of presidential elections in Peru on 6 June.... Read More
Bolivia’s government has placed the scaling up of lithium extraction at the centre of its plans for the remainder of President Luis Arce’s term.... Read More
BRAZIL & SOUTHERN CONE
Brazil’s federal senate set up a parliamentary inquiry commission (CPI) last week to investigate the response of the government led by President Jair Bolsonaro to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, which has been widely condemned as deficient.... Read More
Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández suffered a setback on 4 May when the supreme court (CSJN) ruled that the federal government did not have the authority to order the closure of schools in the City of Buenos Aires (Caba) in a bid to contain the rapid spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More
MEXICO
The attempts by the federal attorney general’s office (FGR) to prosecute the governor of Tamaulipas state, Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca, is producing major political tensions in Mexico.... Read More
CENTRAL AMERICA & CARIBBEAN
Costa Rica’s health minister Daniel Salas last week announced the closure of non-essential businesses across the centre of the country from 3-9 May.... Read More
POSTSCRIPT
Paraguayan senator Mirta Gusinky resigned on 3 May after it emerged that she was given a coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccine before she was entitled to receive it.... Read More
“We didn’t just have the power to do it but the people asked us to.... Read More
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