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Weekly Report - 14 September 2004
BOLIVIA: U-turn on oil law revives confrontations
President Carlos Mesa has bowed to pressure from the nationalist opposition and rewritten his draft hydrocarbons legislation for the second time, on this occasion including a provision that will force the oil companies to renegotiate their current contracts. The companies are up in arms, while on the other side of the spectrum, Evo Morales has switched his stance to reappear as the defender of a major government initiative. These developments are already exacerbating the animosity between the highlands around La Paz where political power resides and the Media Luna regions that surround it.
- 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