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Weekly Report - 4 January 2005
ECUADOR: Test looming for Gutiérrez's 'new majority'
Less than 24 hours after this report is published, Ecuador's 100 congressmen will be electing a new president of congress. This will be the first sustainability test for the 'new majority' the government was able to engineer late last year [WR-04-47]. Ostensibly it will be a contest between the parties of two former presidents, Abdalá Bucaram and Rodrigo Borja. The ability to tilt the balance one way or the other is in the hands of the smaller parties.
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- ECUADOR: Test looming for Gutiérrez's 'new majority'
- Tracking trends
- URUGUAY: Vázquez forges links with Colorados and Church
- CHILE: Bachelet ousts Lavín as 'most promising'
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- MEXICO: First 'Zapatista' municipality outside Chiapas
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- MEXICO-US: State increases reward for 'Chapo' Guzmán
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- HAITI: Latortue pays compensation to ex-soldiers
- GUATEMALA: UN pulls out, three major tasks unfinished
- SURINAME: Bouterse indicted for 'December murders'
- Tracking trends
- Farc leader Trinidad is extradited to the US
- Quotes of the week
- Inflation in the region
- Exchange rates
- The stockmarket in figures