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Weekly Report - 19 April 2005
MEXICO-US: Bush orders review of Mexican passport requirement
On 14 April the US Department of Homeland Security announced the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, under which would-be visitors from Mexico and Canada would require a passport to enter the US. President George Bush Jr, apparently caught on the hop by this move, has asked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and homeland security officials to look for alternatives that would not disrupt 'honest flow of traffic'.
- Ecuador is left without a supreme court and with a president a majority wants out
- REGION: IMF expects 'strong' 4%-plus growth this year
- COLOMBIA: On all fronts, prospects for peace wobble
- VENEZUELA: Mixed debut for new supreme court
- BOLIVIA: Morales in drive to expand his regional base
- Tracking trends
- BRAZIL: Watchdog reveals roster of congressional malfeasance
- CHILE: Bachelet consolidates lead as Lavín slips
- Tracking trends
- MEXICO: PRD's Cárdenas woos the business community
- MEXICO-US: Bush orders review of Mexican passport requirement
- MEXICO-US: Row revives over US agents at airports
- Tracking trends
- Exchange rates
- Inflation in the region
- The stockmarket in figures
- Bolaños (and others) see their paypackets slashed
- Quotes of the week
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Mejía interrogation in Paulino case is 'postponed'
- GUYANA: Angry US reaction at reinstatement of Gajraj
- SURINAME: Defiant Bouterse will run for president
- HAITI: As violence continues, UN ponders reinforcements
- HAITI-DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: US, France & Venezuela to help on border control
- Tracking trends