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Weekly Report - 29 August 2006
COLOMBIA: Ever murkier demobilisation 'impossible to process'
The government of President Alvaro Uribe found itself on the defensive
last week as its rationale for the reclassification of a prominent drug
trafficker as a demobilised paramilitary fighter was challenged by the OAS
observer mission and by the opposition. Equivocal statements by peace
commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo did not help the government's case.
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- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Fernández rejects proposal to extend his term
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