Weekly Report - 07 September 2023 (WR-23-36)

Mexico’s ruling left-wing Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) and opposition Frente Amplio por México (FAM) have both named their 2024 presidential candidates.... Read More

Car bombs, prison mutinies, and more death threats have heightened tensions ahead of the second round of Ecuador’s presidential elections on 15 October.... Read More

Against a challenging backdrop, peace talks with the Colombian guerrilla group Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) are continuing to advance.... Read More

Amid rampant inflation and the long-running depreciation of the Venezuelan bolívar, the issue of dollarisation looks likely to be a key dividing line between candidates in the presidential primary election being held by the opposition coalition Plataforma Unitaria Democrática (PUD) on 22 October.... Read More

Recent opinion surveys in Argentina suggest that Javier Milei has opened up a gap over his main rivals ahead of presidential elections on 22 October, principally at the expense of Patricia Bullrich, the candidate of the traditional right-of-centre opposition Juntos por el Cambio (JxC).... Read More

The loose grouping of mostly centrist and conservative parties that dominates Brazil’s congress, known as the ‘centrão’, has long been known for fickle loyalties, supporting left-wing or right-wing administrations depending on what favours can be traded with the executive government.... Read More

Over a month after São Paulo state deployed a massive police force of around 600 personnel to the Baixada Santista metropolitan area, targeting suspected members of drug trafficking organisations (DTOs) on 28 July, the state’s public security secretary, Guilherme Derrite, announced the end of the controversial Operation ‘Escudo’ on 5 September.... Read More

The federal government unveiled its legislative proposal for the 2024 budget on 31 August and submitted it to congress.... Read More

ARGENTINA | Potassium mine to fire again.... Read More

The first meeting has taken place between the transition team of Guatemala’s president-elect Bernardo Arévalo and outgoing president Alejandro Giammattei, to discuss the handover of power on 14 January.... Read More

Honduras’s 128-member legislative assembly has missed a key deadline – the appointment of the country’s new attorney general for a five-year term.... Read More

Peru’s President Dina Boluarte is highly unpopular and will shortly become even more so.... Read More

“I am an unusual person because I feel people don’t care about being left or right wing, they care that their problems are resolved.... Read More