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Weekly Report - 19 September 2006
COLOMBIA: A message not only for Havana and Caracas
The most strident Latin American denunciations of the world's most powerful countries at the Non-Aligned Movement's summit last week came, predictably enough, from Venezuela, Cuba and Bolivia. Their cue was eagerly picked up by the media, to the almost total exclusion of other voices, also strongly critical but less obstreperous in delivery. One such voice was that of Francisco Santos, vice-president of Colombia, the country most widely perceived as the staunchest ally of the US in the region.
- BOLIVIA: Bid to speed up 'nationalisation' backfires on Bolivia
- ECUADOR: Acrimony spreads with Correa in second place
- VENEZUELA: Has Chávez found his plateau?
- BOLIVIA: Morales gets voluntary coca eradication pledge
- BOLIVIA: Flip-flop on siege of Santa Cruz fair
- COLOMBIA: A message not only for Havana and Caracas
- Tracking trends
- BRAZIL: Lula camp hit by election-eve scandal
- Tracking trends
- NICARAGUA: Ortega coaxes Contra leaders to ditch Montealegre
- HAITI: Distinguishing criminals from the rest
- GUYANA: Top NYC cop to head police reform
- Tracking trends
- Exchange rates
- Inflation in the region
- Stockmarkets in the region
- Brazil hosts a different kind of South-South summit
- Quotes of the week
- MEXICO: López Obrador tries to keep all options open
- MEXICO: First 'top-level' drug boss extradition
- MEXICO-US: Garza again hammers border-area violence
- Tracking trends