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Weekly Report - 22 November 2005
BOLIVIA: Hydrocarbons law returns to the forefront
The controversial new hydrocarbons law threatens to become a touchy campaign issue in the last month of electioneering in Bolivia. The government reported that it had been unable to enforce the 'migration' of oil companies to the new contracts by 15 November, the deadline set in the law - and already Evo Morales's Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) is talking about impeaching President Eduardo Rodríguez.
- The US claims that its War on Drugs is beginning to show measurable success
- COLOMBIA: Uribe seeks accommodation on several fronts
- PERU: Ollanta Humala starts producing surprises
- BOLIVIA: Hydrocarbons law returns to the forefront
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- BRAZIL: Lula says he'll run - then quickly recants
- CHILE: Second poll shows Bachelet weakening
- Tracking Trends
- MEXICO: It is now a tight three-sided contest
- MEXICO: Madrazo moves to purge PRI of dissenters
- MEXICO-US: Bill proposes fence along the whole border
- Tracking Trends
- GUATEMALA: Anti-drugs chief lured to arrest in the US
- HAITI: Latortue sets date, CEP contradicts him
- HONDURAS: Lobo surges ahead in last stretch
- CUBA: Castro launches 'cultural revolution'
- Tracking Trends
- The latest data
- REGION: South America leads the world in deforestation
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