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Weekly Report - 20 August 2015 (WR-15-33)
PANAMA: Averting Canal threats
The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) managed to avoid the threat of strike action last week by construction workers employed on the biggest project under the US$5.2bn Canal expansion plan – the construction of a third set of locks. It has yet, however, to address definitively another threat - corruption allegations surrounding an ACP board member, Nicolás Corcione, which could undermine efforts to retain the body’s reputation intact.
- Chile’s Bachelet in fight-back mode
- BRAZIL: Political pressure recedes for now
- ARGENTINA: Floods prompt accusations of dirty tricks
- ECUADOR: Correa confronts protests and strike
- COLOMBIA: Santos and Farc proposals incite criticism
- MEXICO: Stung into action by human rights criticism
- CUBA: Dissidents complain of abandonment
- SURINAME: Bouterse faces much tougher term in office
- PANAMA: Averting Canal threats
- NICARAGUA: Closing a chapter with the US
- Support for Paraguay’s Cartes starts to wane
- Quotes of the week