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Weekly Report - 1 February 2005
BRAZIL: Heckling, defections and rebellion sour Lula's week
President Lula da Silva may have been lionised at Davos, but back home he was jeered and heckled as he addressed the rival gathering he had co-founded, the World Social Forum. This was only one of the contretemps that made it a bad week for him: he also saw 100 members of his party defect en masse, while some rebels in congress floated a maverick candidacy in the leadership elections, in conjunction with the anti-government faction of Lula's chief ally, the
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- Mesa tries to wrest leadership of regional autonomy drive from rebel Santa Cruz
- ECUADOR: Nebot demands autonomy for Guayaquil - and others
- COLOMBIA: Warning from top paramilitary leader
- VENEZUELA-COLOMBIA: Bogotá promises not to do it again
- Tracking trends
- BRAZIL: Heckling, defections and rebellion sour Lula's week
- PARAGUAY: Judges & prosecutors accused of corruption
- ARGENTINA: Menem teams up with Rodríguez Saá
- Tracking trends
- MEXICO-US: Tiff with Washington as Fox's 'war' escalates
- MEXICO: Michoacán's legislator from the US
- Tracking trends
- NICARAGUA: Missile sale suspected of being a 'double sting'
- HAITI: As parties start merging, Buteur defies Minustah
- COSTA RICA: Vice-President Fishman abandons ship
- JAMAICA: Baugh to lead JLP until Golding is elected
- 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