End of preview - This article contains approximately 561 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options
Back
Weekly Report - 25 January 2007
BRAZIL: Opposition worries about PAC's reach
True to his word, President Lula da Silva benefited the lower income population in his recently-announced Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento (PAC). The programme's reach, however, has caused disquiet among sectors of the opposition.
- New impetus to ELN peace deal could ease parapolitical pressure
- ECUADOR: Congress besieged by protesters
- VENEZUELA: Miquilena emerges to chastise Chávez
- BOLIVIA: Morales rings the changes
- Tracking trends
- MERCOSUR: Argentina victorious but Mercosur loses out
- BRAZIL: Difficulties ahead to approve the PAC
- PARAGUAY: Duarte beavers away for dam deal
- CHILE: Frei case further damages Pinochet's legacy
- BRAZIL: Opposition worries about PAC's reach
- Tracking trends
- MEXICO: Government extradites drug barons to US
- MEXICO: Government fails to fix tortilla prices
- Tracking trends
- COSTA RICA: Arias wins fast track for Cafta-DR
- NICARAGUA: Ortega pushes through "urgent" reforms
- Tracking trends
- Latest data
- Saca backs special courts to tackle maras
- Quotes of the Week