End of preview - This article contains approximately 1076 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options
Back
Caribbean & Central America - October 2011 (ISSN 1741-4458)
PANAMA: Martinelli faces new challenge
The ruling alliance, struck between President Ricardo Martinelli’s Cambio Democrático (CD) and Vice-President Juan Carlos Varela’s Partido Panameñista (PP), has officially ended. Martinelli’s dismissal of Varela from the post of foreign minister on 30 August, triggering the resignations of other PP cabinet members in solidarity, led Varela to pronounce the alliance over. He also declared that, despite being part of the executive (he retains the vice-presidency, having been elected to the position in the 2009 vote) he will now play the role of “leader of the opposition”. This presents a new challenge to Martinelli, given the hitherto failure of the opposition Partido Revolucionario Democrático (PRD) to fulfill that role in the legislature.
- Few certainties as Guatemala heads for second round
- PANAMA: Martinelli faces new challenge
- NICARAGUA: Ortega receives foreign endorsement
- ECONOMIC OVERVIEW: NICARAGUA
- EL SALVADOR: Funes piqued by US blacklisting
- COSTA RICA: Chinchilla’s Rubik’s Cube
- HONDURAS: Lobo’s party eats itself
- ECONOMIC OVERVIEW: HONDURAS
- CUBA: No virtuous circle yet
- ECONOMIC OVERVIEW: CUBA
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Education becomes an issue
- JAMAICA: Golding to step down
- GUYANA-VENEZUELA: Guyanese UN application rekindles old spat
- CARIBBEAN POINTERS
- Martelly moves ahead with plan to restore army