September 7, 2024
A weekly review of news and analysis of elections in the Americas, usually posted on Saturdays and occasionally updated throughout the week.
Sugarloaf Mountain in Campbellton, New Brunswick, Canada. Photo credit: Wikimedia/start3000 (CC BY 3.0)
Upcoming Americas Elections
Canada, Provincial Elections in British Columbia: October 19, 2024, followed by provincial elections in New Brunswick and Saskatchewan later this fall (next federal elections due by October 20, 2025 but could be called earlier)
Kyle Duggan, Politico (September 7, 2024): Why Canada’s progressive party just dumped Trudeau
Jim Morris, AP (September 5, 2024): Canada’s NDP leader says end of agreement with Liberals makes election timing uncertain
Nadine Yousif, BBC (September 5, 2024): Why Canadian politics just got more unpredictable
Peru Presidential and Legislative Elections: April 12, 2026
EFE Agency (September 5, 2024 – in Spanish): Fujimori’s possible candidacy must be decided by electoral jury, says magistrate
Haiti General Elections: Long Overdue
Reuters (September 5, 2024): Blinken urges Haiti to set up council that would organize elections next year
Past Americas Elections
Venezuela Presidential Election: July 28, 2024
Mauricio Torres and Abel Alvarado, CNN (September 7, 2024): Venezuelan security forces surround Argentine embassy after opposition members take refuge inside
Ana Vanessa Herrero and Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post (September 6, 2024): Maduro likely lost Venezuela’s election but refuses to leave. What now?
Tim Padgett, Miami Herald (September 6, 2024): Is Venezuela changing how the left responds to the dictatorial left?
Buenos Aires Herald (September 6, 2024): Argentina asks ICC to issue Maduro arrest warrant
Ione Wells, BBC (September 5, 2024): Venezuela opposition: Everyone knows we won vote
Buenos Aires Times/AFP (September 4, 2024): Christmas in October? Venezuelan President Maduro moves holiday amid post-election turmoil
The Elders (September 3, 2024): The Elders call for UN-backed independent commission to probe Venezuela election
Rebecca Falconer, Axios (September 2, 2024): U.S. seizes Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro’s plane
Tom Phillips, The Guardian (September 2, 2024): Venezuela judge issues arrest warrant for opposition leader after disputed election
Mexico General Elections: June 2, 2024
David Shortell, CNN (September 5, 2024): Judges may soon have to run for election in Mexico. Critics say that’s bad news for its democracy
María Verza, AP (September 5, 2024): What’s at stake in Mexico’s judicial system under sweeping overhaul pushed by the president
Honduras General Elections: November 28, 2021 (next elections due by November 2025)
AP (September 4, 2024): Honduras’ president is asked to resign after corruption scandal she says is a plot to oust her
Elections On Deck
Americas This Week: September 7, 2024
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September 7, 2024
A weekly review of news and analysis of elections in the Americas, usually posted on Saturdays and occasionally updated throughout the week.
Upcoming Americas Elections
Canada, Provincial Elections in British Columbia: October 19, 2024, followed by provincial elections in New Brunswick and Saskatchewan later this fall (next federal elections due by October 20, 2025 but could be called earlier)
Kyle Duggan, Politico (September 7, 2024): Why Canada’s progressive party just dumped Trudeau
Jim Morris, AP (September 5, 2024): Canada’s NDP leader says end of agreement with Liberals makes election timing uncertain
Nadine Yousif, BBC (September 5, 2024): Why Canadian politics just got more unpredictable
Peru Presidential and Legislative Elections: April 12, 2026
EFE Agency (September 5, 2024 – in Spanish): Fujimori’s possible candidacy must be decided by electoral jury, says magistrate
Haiti General Elections: Long Overdue
Reuters (September 5, 2024): Blinken urges Haiti to set up council that would organize elections next year
Past Americas Elections
Venezuela Presidential Election: July 28, 2024
Mauricio Torres and Abel Alvarado, CNN (September 7, 2024): Venezuelan security forces surround Argentine embassy after opposition members take refuge inside
Ana Vanessa Herrero and Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post (September 6, 2024): Maduro likely lost Venezuela’s election but refuses to leave. What now?
Tim Padgett, Miami Herald (September 6, 2024): Is Venezuela changing how the left responds to the dictatorial left?
Buenos Aires Herald (September 6, 2024): Argentina asks ICC to issue Maduro arrest warrant
Ione Wells, BBC (September 5, 2024): Venezuela opposition: Everyone knows we won vote
Buenos Aires Times/AFP (September 4, 2024): Christmas in October? Venezuelan President Maduro moves holiday amid post-election turmoil
The Elders (September 3, 2024): The Elders call for UN-backed independent commission to probe Venezuela election
Rebecca Falconer, Axios (September 2, 2024): U.S. seizes Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro’s plane
Tom Phillips, The Guardian (September 2, 2024): Venezuela judge issues arrest warrant for opposition leader after disputed election
Mexico General Elections: June 2, 2024
David Shortell, CNN (September 5, 2024): Judges may soon have to run for election in Mexico. Critics say that’s bad news for its democracy
María Verza, AP (September 5, 2024): What’s at stake in Mexico’s judicial system under sweeping overhaul pushed by the president
Honduras General Elections: November 28, 2021 (next elections due by November 2025)
AP (September 4, 2024): Honduras’ president is asked to resign after corruption scandal she says is a plot to oust her
Elections On Deck
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