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Weekly Report - 1 July 2003
In brief: Threat to Venezuelan business
Venezuela's umbrella private-sector organisation, Fedecámaras (one of the pillars of the recent strike-cum-lockout which failed to unseat President Hugo Chávez ), predicts that
30% of local businesses could be forced to shut down as a result of the economic crisis and the aggravating effect of the exchange-control régime (see above).
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- Looking harder at scope of corruption
- Billionaire wants policy change
- Mexican economy runs out of steam
- PERU: Toldeo picks first woman prime minister
- PERU in brief: Macro-region for north; Tax proposals
- BOLIVIA: Killings exacerbate feud with Morales
- VENEZUELA: New exchange control regime
- ECUADOR: Linkup with the right to confront Borja
- In brief: Threat to Venezuelan business
- ECUADOR: Ecuador seeks to lay hands on IMF cash
- BRAZIL: Lula confronts MST's mass squats drive
- BRAZIL: and now, Brazil's shift to growth
- BRAZIL: In the major league for crime
- ARGENTINA: Supreme court president blinks first
- ARGENTINA: Three-year IMF deal, with a warning
- ARGENTINA: Lavagna slaps controls on hot money
- CHILE: Violent crime rate 'held' after sharp rise
- CHILE: Easter Island elders seek independence
- JAMAICA: JLP now thinks it can force early polls
- COSTA RICA: Schools back to normal after teachers win
- PANAMA: Bush promises a bilateral FTA
- BAHAMAS: Outlook lowered by Moody's
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
- In brief: Costa Rica economy; Nicaragua/Enitel; Jamaica's sugar crop
- Exchange rates
- Inflation in the region
- The stockmarkets
- ARGENTINA/Provincial contests
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