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Weekly Report - 22 May 2014 (WR-14-20)
VENEZUELA: The mother of all adjustments
While progress is slow and painful on the ground, and will mean a recession this year, there are signs that the government led by President Nicolás Maduro is moving towards a more pragmatic policy stance that could, eventually, restore some macro-economic stability to Venezuela ahead of 2015 mid-term legislative elections.
- Salvadorean gangs “have a strategy to penetrate key state institutions”
- VENEZUELA: The mother of all adjustments
- PERU: ‘Elections at risk from deep corruption’
- BOLIVIA: Navy says lakes and rivers are cocaine routes
- TRACKING TRENDS
- BRAZIL: Strikes multiply in Rio and São Paulo
- ARGENTINA: Investigation into Boudou to continue
- TRACKING TRENDS
- MEXICO: In Tamaulipas, a bid to root out embedded collusion
- MEXICO: Revealed: a state in the grip of organised crime
- HONDURAS: Now a law for shoot-down in the sea
- HAITI: Martelly moves on more pledges
- Unasur leaves Caracas empty handed
- Quotes of the week