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Weekly Report - 14 September 2004
EL SALVADOR: Saca sees gangs, not al-Qaida, as main threat
As far as security threats go, President Elías Antonio Saca has been making it clear that he is far more concerned about the homegrown variety, and particularly the street gangs known as maras, than the purported warnings from al-Qaida offshoots that El Salvador would suffer attacks at home if it sent a new contingent of troops to Iraq [WR-04-34]. Indeed, he has been sounding a very sceptical note on much of what is being said about al-Qaida in other parts of Central America.
- 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