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Weekly Report - 3 May 2005

Andean
President Alfredo Palacio has not got off to a brilliant start.... Read More
President Alvaro Uribe has carried out his second top-level purge of the army in less than seven months.... Read More
BOLIVIA | Hydrocarbons bill back to deputies.... Read More
Southern Cone
Fresh from the 'Red April' campaign of land invasions, the movement of the landless, MST, has set out on a 200-kilometre march on Brasí­lia with the stated aim of persuading the government to change its policy on land reform.... Read More
ARGENTINA | Construction slowdown continues.... Read More
Mexico & Nafta
The Mexican government has made use, for the first time, of powers introduced in 2003 to regulate the practice of religion in the country.... Read More
The Mexican government has reacted tetchily to California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's public praise of the 'citizen' border patrols of the Minuteman Project in Arizona [WR-05-16], warning that such statements might harm bilateral relations.... Read More
MEXICO | Economic growth slower than anticipated.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
For a brief spell last week it looked as if President Enrique Bolaños might be facing the same fate as Lucio Gutiérrez in Ecuador or, earlier, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada in Bolivia.... Read More
The warning shot from the legislature came on 1 May, when Gerardo González, of the ruling Partido Unidad Social Cristiana (Pusc) was re-elected president of congress with a slender two-vote majority - and that was after Luis Ramí­rez of the opposition Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN) decided not to run for the post.... Read More
A lateral solution appears to have been found for one of the political problems preventing an understanding between the government and the pro-Aristide camp.... Read More
A group of opposition senators is floating once more a draft constitutional amendment which would bring back synchronised legislative and presidential elections, which since 1996 have taken place two years apart, precisely at each other's mid-term point.... Read More
With the US and the IDB threatening to cut off aid if home affairs minister Ronald Gajraj remained in office, Gajraj tendered his resignation last week, insisting all along that the charges against him had been fabricated by the opposition with the intention of discrediting the government.... Read More
GUATEMALA | Textiles survive lifting of quotas.... Read More
Postscript
No longer will every apparently extraordinary weather upset in the hemisphere be called a product of El Niño or its occasional sequel, La Niña - or at least that is the hope of the representatives of 26 countries who adopted on 28 April a 'consensus definition' of the two climate events... Read More
“The nature of the Brazilian state does not work in favour of the poor; it only knows how to guarantee the privileges of the rich." João Pedro Stédile, leader of the MST, Brazil's movement of the landless, launching a 200-kilometre protest march on the capital, Brasí­lia. “Your news, your team.... Read More
Region
The election of Chilean interior minister José Miguel Insulza as new secretary-general of the OAS, confirmed on 2 May in Washington, was actually settled three days earlier in Santiago, when the US played the role of chief elector, switching its support away from Mexican foreign minister Luis Ernesto Derbez.... Read More

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