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Weekly Report - 27 July 2004
GUATEMALA: Soto resigns as public launches anticrime drive
Interior minister Arturo Soto last week became the second member of President Oscar Berger's initial team to quit. Unlike the first, security commissioner Otto Pérez, Soto's departure was not ostensibly due to political reasons. He himself pointed to personal motives, and Berger said it had always been understood that Soto would serve only during a brief 'transitional' period. Inevitably, though, many in Guatemala have associated his resignation with the growing discontent about rising violent crime.
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- BRAZIL: After mass protest, threat of a general strike
- URUGUAY: Vázquez still has to work for a win
- PARAGUAY: Wasmosy charges US embassy with eavesdropping
- Tracking trends
- BOLIVIA: Beyond the radicals, an ethnic tinderbox
- PERU: Sendero 'unlikely to return to fighting'
- COLOMBIA: As kidnappings are halved, the cost is tallied
- COLOMBIA: 'Tirofijo is alive and well' - Farc leader
- Tracking trends
- MEXICO-US: Bush 'blocking' bill for farm workers
- MEXICO: Scramble for turf as 'cartels' are weakened
- MEXICO: Genocide charge against Echeverría dismissed
- Tracking trends
- GUATEMALA: Soto resigns as public launches anticrime drive
- NICARAGUA: Plot seen behind revival of FSLN-PLC entente
- CUBA-US: Could Bush restrictions backfire at home?
- TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: Abu Bakr on trial; Islamic villages scheme
- Tracking trends
- The stockmarket in figures
- Exchange rates
- Inflation in the region
- Guatemalans get grim reminder of 1982 massacre