Ananta Insights | Latin America & Caribbean Review | Ambassador Deepak Bhojwani | January 2025
Review of 2024 Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) had its share of geopolitical tumult in 2024. Presidential elections were held in Venezuela, El Salvador, Panama, Dominican Republic, Mexico and Uruguay. Parliamentary, regional and municipal elections were also held in some countries. By December 2024 six major countries were governed by left or left-leaning governments: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay […]
Ananta Insights | Latin America & Caribbean Review | Ambassador Deepak Bhojwani | November 2024
Political Developments: In Venezuela, as President Nicolas Maduro dug in his heels, refusing to yield to international – including Latin American – pressure to reveal the vote tally of the July elections, his opponent, Edmundo Gonzalez fled to Spain, after a few weeks in hiding in the Dutch embassy in Caracas. Although Gonzalez and the […]
Latin America & Caribbean Review | Ambassador Deepak Bhojwani | September 2024
Political Developments: On 28 July Venezuelans voted in a presidential election which was widely expected to be in favour of the opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez, a former diplomat. He was standing in for the leading opposition figure Ms. Maria Corrina Machado, herself banned months earlier from contesting by President Nicolas Maduro, who had realized this was a […]
Latin America & Caribbean Review | Ambassador Deepak Bhojwani | July 2024
Political Developments: Mexico made history on 2 June by electing its first woman President. Claudia Sheinbaum, candidate for the MORENA Party of outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), won close to 60 percent of the vote, giving her a lead of about 30 percentage points over Ms Xóchitl Gálvez of the combined opposition. Dr. Sheinbaum […]
Latin America & Caribbean Review | Ambassador Deepak Bhojwani | May 2024
Political Developments Haiti went on the boil again in early March. Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who took office after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in July 2021 by Colombian mercenaries, was abroad finalising an agreement for a 2000-member police force from Kenya. The UN Mission having withdrawn years ago, the blighted nation saw an […]
Latin America & Caribbean Review | Ambassador Deepak Bhojwani | March 2024
Political Developments On 4 February El Salvador’s voters overwhelmingly endorsed President Nayib Bukele for a second term. He outclassed his opponents from the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), and the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance, the two parties that shared power before Bukele’s New Ideas (Nuevas Ideas) party appeared. Bukele has become a consequential and […]
Latin America & Caribbean Review | Ambassador Deepak Bhojwani | January 2024
Political Developments On 19 November Argentina voted in Javier Milei as President. With a clear lead of 12 points over his opponent Sergio Massa of the ruling Peronist alliance, the electorate has reposed faith in the radical “libertarian” candidate of Libertad Avanza (Liberty Forward) party. Nowhere on the horizon till this year, the economist and former […]
Latin America & Caribbean Review | Ambassador Deepak Bhojwani | November 2023
Political Developments The Israel-Hamas conflict reverberated in Latin America. After the Russian resolution in the UN Security Council was vetoed, Brazil, which presided over the UNSC in October, introduced a resolution on 18 October. If adopted, the resolution would have condemned all violence and hostilities against civilians and all acts of terrorism, and would […]
Latin America & Caribbean Review | September 2023
HIGHLIGHTS ● Political Developments● Economic Developments● Focus India-LAC Political Developments On 17 July 50 leaders from the European Union (EU), Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) gathered in Brussels for the third EU-CELAC Summit. EU held six summits with LAC between 1999 and 2010. Afterthe creation of CELAC (community of Latin American and Caribbean States) in […]
Latin America & Caribbean Review- July 2023
HIGHLIGHTS ● Political Developments● Economic Developments● Focus India-LAC Political Developments On 30 May, President Lula of Brazil convened a summit of 11 South American Presidents – excluding Peru’s President Ms Dina Boluarte, who was “unable to attend due to domestic unrest” and represented by her prime minister. Lula has attempted to gain centre-stage and manage […]