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Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto and the federally ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) have come out fighting in the wake of the worst set of results in the party’s history in gubernatorial, state legisla- tive and municipal elections on 5 June. Peña Nieto sought to regain the initiative immediately by urging congress to approve the necessary secondary legislation to get his government’s national anti-corruption system (SNA) off the ground; corruption is being seen as one of the principal causes of the PRI’s humbling electoral defeats. The federal attorney general’s office (PGR) then swooped on the figurehead of the longstanding teacher protests against the government’s education reform; Rubén Núñez was arrested on suspicion of misappropriating at least M$24m (US$1.3m).

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Sonia Guajajara and the Indigenous spring in Brazil

Last week Sonia Guajajara, Brazil’s first-ever Minister for Indigenous Peoples, landed in London accompanied by two younger Indigenous activists. Her travels coincided with a ground-breaking Supreme Court victory for Indigenous peoples and allies in Brazil. In Canning House's latest blog, Laura Trajber Waisbich considers what Guajajara's, and Brazil's, new approach to Indigenous policies mean for the country.

All change in Ecuador

President Guillermo Lasso has called a snap election. He is the first Ecuadorian president to do so after the mechanism’s addition to the country’s Constitution in 2008. In Canning House's latest blog, Walter Spurrier offers an overview of the candidates vying to be country's next leader.

16-06-2016: Latin American Weekly Report

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All change in Ecuador

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