End of preview - This article contains approximately 662 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options
Back
Weekly Report - 15 May 2014 (WR-14-19)
ARGENTINA: Sick with violence
Much of the rapprochement between the government of President Cristina Fernández and the Argentine Roman Catholic Church threatened to unravel this week after the Episcopal Conference published a letter lamenting, in stark terms, the rise of violence in Argentina. Jorge Capitanich, the cabinet chief, responded by describing the letter as part of a “deliberate attempt” to blame the federal government for rising crime, when the provincial governments were the authorities responsible. The letter comes at a critical time in the debate over criminal justice: plans to reform the penal code are currently bogged down in congress, with many opposition leaders claiming the reform would benefit criminals.
- Closing the chapter on Michoacán self-defence groups?
- COLOMBIA: Petro back with a bang
- VENEZUELA: Radicals try to fill the vacuum as talks stall
- PERU: New attorney general excites controversy
- BOLIVIA: Deal on the cards with military officers
- CHILE: Students call time on truce
- ARGENTINA: Sick with violence
- BRAZIL: Strike chaos ahead of World Cup
- BRAZIL: To the north-east in search of votes
- COSTA RICA: Solís constructs glass house
- HONDURAS: Tantrums and tear gas in congress
- PANAMA: Wheeling and dealing begins ahead of July
- Veteran guerrillas converge on Washington
- Quotes of the week