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Weekly Report - 5 October 2004
MEXICO: Triumphant PRI may help López Obrador survive
The meeting between President Vicente Fox and Mexico City mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador was perfunctory and failed to clear the air. However, from elsewhere came what appeared to be a message that the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) would not support the lifting of López Obrador's immunity from prosecution. Basking in his party's electoral victories, PRI leader Roberto Madrazo said he had no need to remove López Obrador from the presidential race.
- Brazil's municipal polls end with two winners: the ruling PT and the opposition PSDB
- CHILE: Lagos replaces 'leading ladies' Bachelet and Alvear
- PARAGUAY: Tax on land, but not for land reform
- ARGENTINA: Brazil and Chile ruffle feathers in Buenos Aires
- ARGENTINA: Piqueteros try out new tactic
- Tracking trends
- PERU: Reátegui ropes in 'Sendero Luminoso infiltrators'
- ECUADOR: Gutiérrez bill to 'depoliticise' the supreme court
- Tracking trends
- MEXICO: Triumphant PRI may help López Obrador survive
- Tracking trends
- COSTA RICA: Both big parties caught in corruption scandals
- GUATEMALA: 'Hidden powers' see off UN with violence and threats
- NICARAGUA: Public wants Alemán and Ortega to retire
- HAITI: Aristide followers in deadly clashes with police
- Tracking trends
- The stockmarket in figures
- Exchange rates
- Inflation in the region
- More sightings and rumblings about el-Shukrijumah
- Quotes of the week