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Weekly Report - 14 September 2004
ARGENTINA: Legal scholars slam hasty anticrime measures
Argentina's top legal scholars have taken the government and politicians to task for rushing to pass anticrime legislation, based mainly on increasing penalties, merely to satisfy demands of the moment. They argue that this approach is not only ineffectual but also runs the risk of
heightening public disaffection with the country's institutions.
- ILO survey shows unemployment still stubbornly high in most of the region
- MERCOSUR: Joint defence secretariat 'under study'
- ARGENTINA: Legal scholars slam hasty anticrime measures
- PARAGUAY: Landowners threaten to resist 'invasions'
- Tracking trends
- BOLIVIA: U-turn on oil law revives confrontations
- COLOMBIA: 'Narco' lands slated for 'unique agrarian reform'
- ECUADOR: No agreement on motion to impeach Gutiérrez
- Tracking trends
- HAITI: Rebellion of former soldiers spreads
- COSTA RICA: Finance minister & chief of staff trigger cabinet crisis
- EL SALVADOR: Saca sees gangs, not al-Qaida, as main threat
- HONDURAS: Maduro cuts funding for Parlacen
- Tracking trends
- MEXICO: Fox seeks rapprochement with López Obrador
- MEXICO: Minister ruled in contempt of land ruling
- Tracking trends
- Inflation in the region
- The stockmarket in figures
- Exchange rates
- Pinochet's secret police 'never tortured or disappeared anyone'
- Quotes of the week