End of preview - This article contains approximately 1263 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options
Back
Weekly Report - 6 November 2014 (WR-14-44)
VENEZUELA: Not everyone believes in Saint Nicolás
Christmas has come early to Venezuela for a second year in a row, but the mood is far from festive. “Get up Nicolás! Its 9.30AM already! And most Venezuelans have already spent the joke of an increase you gave them!”. “Have you had an empanada yet today? Then you have already eaten the salary increase that Nicolás considers ‘fair’ for you as of 1 December”. “Unacceptable that Nicolás also intends to divide Venezuelans with the increases. Some with 45%, and others with 15%. Inflation hits everyone!”. Thus proceeded a merry string of tweets from the opposition leader, Henrique Capriles Radonksi, the day after President Nicolás Maduro announced a 15% rise in Venezuela’s minimum wage to BF4,889 per month from 1 December.
- Path cleared for Ecuador’s Correa to serve indefinitely
- VENEZUELA: Not everyone believes in Saint Nicolás
- ECUADOR-PERU: Deepening integration for peace and prosperity
- TRACKING TRENDS
- BRAZIL: Dealing with the PMDB
- BRAZIL: Neves returns to senate vowing tireless opposition
- BRAZIL: Tough decisions expected in second term
- ARGENTINA: Government denounces rumours of debt negotiations
- PARAGUAY: State promises action after high-profile murder
- TRACKING TRENDS
- MEXICO: Supreme court rejects referendum on energy reform
- TRACKING TRENDS
- NORTHERN TRIANGLE: Boosting development to ease child migrant concerns
- TRACKING TRENDS
- Flores case takes new turn in El Salvador
- Quotes of the week