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Weekly Report - 1 February 2005
ECUADOR: Nebot demands autonomy for Guayaquil - and others
Anyone arriving from eastern Bolivia would have had a sense of déja vu in Guayaquil, Ecuador's business capital, on 26 January. Tens of thousands of people had filled the streets at the behest of the mayor, Jaime Nebot, holding aloft placards which proclaimed, Guayaquil Independiente ('independent Guayaquil'). Nebot took advantage of the occasion to issue a call for the establishment of what he called 'solidary autonomy' for the provinces of Ecuador.
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- Tracking trends
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- PARAGUAY: Judges & prosecutors accused of corruption
- ARGENTINA: Menem teams up with Rodríguez Saá
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- MEXICO-US: Tiff with Washington as Fox's 'war' escalates
- MEXICO: Michoacán's legislator from the US
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- HAITI: As parties start merging, Buteur defies Minustah
- COSTA RICA: Vice-President Fishman abandons ship
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- BARBADOS: 'Republic status by the end of 2005'
- Tracking trends
- Exchange rates
- Inflation in the region
- The stockmarket in figures
- Supreme court deadline for Chilean rights trials
- Quotes of the week