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Weekly Report - 14 September 2004
HAITI: Rebellion of former soldiers spreads
The rebellion by former Haitian soldiers has been spreading as they continued taking over from the national police in a number of cities. Though one of their leaders has called for an open revolt against the interim government, the ex-soldiers have avoided confrontation whenever UN forces have moved to evict them from positions they had occupied.
- 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