End of preview - This article contains approximately 429 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options
Back
Weekly Report - 19 January 2012 (WR-12-03)
ARGENTINA: Struggle over inflation intensifies
Inflation in Argentina is either high but under control or exceptionally high and out of control. The government argues the former; private consulting firms the latter. The national statistics institute (Indec) this week published an ‘official’ inflation figure for 2011 of 9.5%. Private analysts put the figure at 22.8%, second only to Venezuela in the region and one of the highest rates in the world.
- Funes seizes the moment and brings El Salvador to turning point
- GUATEMALA: Pérez Molina’s initial moves
- NICARAGUA: Ortega reprises old routine
- ECUADOR: Correa reaches historic milestone
- COLOMBIA: Santos kick-starts land restitution
- BOLIVIA: Morales suffers another embarrassment
- VENEZUELA: Chávez smashes previous record
- BRAZIL: ‘Adjustments’ in the offing, nothing more
- ARGENTINA: Struggle over inflation intensifies
- TRACKING TRENDS
- MEXICO: Vázquez Mota gets closer
- MEXICO: Becoming an election issue
- TRACKING TRENDS
- My economy is bigger than yours, Patriota tells Hague
- Quotes of the week