End of preview - This article contains approximately 52 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options
Back
Weekly Report - 1 July 2003
BRAZIL: In the major league for crime
Justice minister Márcio Thomaz Bastos last week told congress that Brazil has become one of the countries with the greatest number of homicides and armed robberies, ranked after Colombia, South Africa and Jamaica. His address opened the 'week of public security' launched by the government to muster support for an anti-crime drive.
- Coca cultivation is down from peak years, according to UN watchdog
- Looking harder at scope of corruption
- Billionaire wants policy change
- Mexican economy runs out of steam
- PERU: Toldeo picks first woman prime minister
- PERU in brief: Macro-region for north; Tax proposals
- BOLIVIA: Killings exacerbate feud with Morales
- VENEZUELA: New exchange control regime
- ECUADOR: Linkup with the right to confront Borja
- In brief: Threat to Venezuelan business
- ECUADOR: Ecuador seeks to lay hands on IMF cash
- BRAZIL: Lula confronts MST's mass squats drive
- BRAZIL: and now, Brazil's shift to growth
- BRAZIL: In the major league for crime
- ARGENTINA: Supreme court president blinks first
- ARGENTINA: Three-year IMF deal, with a warning
- ARGENTINA: Lavagna slaps controls on hot money
- CHILE: Violent crime rate 'held' after sharp rise
- CHILE: Easter Island elders seek independence
- JAMAICA: JLP now thinks it can force early polls
- COSTA RICA: Schools back to normal after teachers win
- PANAMA: Bush promises a bilateral FTA
- BAHAMAS: Outlook lowered by Moody's
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
- In brief: Costa Rica economy; Nicaragua/Enitel; Jamaica's sugar crop
- Exchange rates
- Inflation in the region
- The stockmarkets
- ARGENTINA/Provincial contests
- MEXICO: Fox's friends off the hook; No more advertising