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Weekly Report - 3 May 2005
López Obrador wins, but what this means for 2006 is open to question
Andrés Manuel López Obrador has won. After he attracted the support of hundreds of thousands on the streets of Mexico, he was able to sit back and watch President Vicente Fox beat a hasty retreat from his ostensibly arms-length handling of the legal proceedings against him, and even promise publicly, if obliquely, to guarantee that he will be able to run for the presidency in 2006. This outcome will have many repercussions, not all of them obvious.
- López Obrador wins, but what this means for 2006 is open to question
- ECUADOR: A most challenging start for Palacio
- COLOMBIA: Uribe fires new batch of dissident generals
- Tracking trends
- BRAZIL: MST excuses Lula, targets two ministers
- Tracking trends
- MEXICO: Crackdown on 'fringe' Christian churches
- MEXICO-US: Unease at official endorsement of 'Minutemen'
- Tracking trends
- NICARAGUA: Protests take Bolaños administration to the brink
- COSTA RICA: Pacheco's last year looks grey
- HAITI: Neptune released on medical grounds
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: PRD wants elections back in synch
- GUYANA: Unrepentant Gajraj bows out, slowly
- Tracking trends
- Exchange rates
- Inflation in the region
- The stock market in figures
- El Niño & La Niña by no other name
- Quotes of the week
- REGION: US swings OAS vote in favour of Insulza