Political Risk

BMI View: In a move to bolster falling approval ratings, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has effected a remarkable U-turn, sacking three cabinet ministers, despite claiming less... 2006-08-04

BMI View: President Néstor Kirchner issued 61 executive decrees between May 2005 and May 2006, according to a study by the Centro de Estudios para Políticas Públicas Aplicadas... 2006-07-11

As ever, one of the toughest foreign policy nuts to crack remains Chile's troubled relations with its northern Andean neighbours. Regaining land lost to Chile during a 19th century... 2006-06-29

Bachelet's first international tours focussed on Chile's Southern Cone contemporaries - many of which are important trading partners. Bachelet chose Argentina as her first port of... 2006-06-12

President Nicanor Duarte Frutos recently expressed the desire to pursue FTAs with non-Mercosur countries, something which would explicitly violate the founding agreement of the trading... 2006-06-12

Former economy minister Roberto Lavagna, widely credited with Argentina's impressive economic recovery, has entered the political spotlight after publicly criticising government policies... 2006-06-12

Since his overwhelming victory in the October 2005 legislative elections - his first real opportunity to prove that he had gained the support of the electorate after he won the presidency... 2006-05-15

Heading into the March 13 Asociación Nacional Republicana (Colorados) internal presidential elections, President Duarte had been informed by the electoral authority that the constitution... 2006-04-13

While the conflict over the construction of two paper mills on the Uruguayan bank of the Uruguay River that forms a natural border between the two countries seems to be nearing a... 2006-04-13

It is too soon to describe Pinochet as an 'irrelevancy' to modern Chilean politics (to paraphrase President-elect Michelle Bachelet). The extent of his regime's abuses, and the successes... 2006-03-14