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Weekly Report - 26 August 2003
EL SALVADOR: Congress refuses to pass anti-mara law
A month after he launched his `firm hand' campaign against the gangs known as maras (WR-03-30), President Francisco Flores has been unable to persuade the legislative assembly to pass laws criminalising membership of a mara, imposing stiffer prison sentences and lowering the age of criminal responsibility.
- Samper proposes semi-parliamentary recipe to avert institutional crises
- BRAZIL: Lula's second big reform hits snags
- ARGENTINA: 'Unknown' Kirchner reveals a little more
- ARGENTINA: War crimes prosecutor in 'nullity' row
- CHILE: Military trials to stand in Mexico
- CHILE: Good management, but more push needed
- Tracking trends
- MEXICO: PRI returns to promising cooperation
- MEXICO: Sharp Zapatista response to army 'presence'
- MEXICO: Heading for new Security Council spat
- Tracking trends
- VENEZUELA: Now the referendum process 'goes live'
- PERU: Truce with coca growers, at a cost
- PERU: Defector tells of dissent in Sendero
- BOLIVIA: Waiting for an excuse to send in the army
- COLOMBIA: Up to 2,000 `paracos' to disarm this year
- Tracking trends
- CUBA: Leading dissident 'was police informant'
- EL SALVADOR: FMLN unveils softer policy package
- EL SALVADOR: Congress refuses to pass anti-mara law
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Mejía hits the re-election trail
- TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: Debating Chávez's oil & gas overtures
- Tracking trends
- HONDURAS: Rumsfeld visits US military base in Honduras,'outpost in truly global struggle'