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Weekly Report - 14 September 2004
ECUADOR: No agreement on motion to impeach Gutiérrez
President Lucio Gutiérrez has been granted a reprieve by the current opposition's inability to agree on how they should go about impeaching him. The main obstacle is that the conservative Partido Social Cristiano (PSC) is arguing that there are as yet no clear constitutional grounds for an impeachment to proceed.
- 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