End of preview - This article contains approximately 392 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options
Back
Weekly Report - 03 November 2011 (WR-11-44)
URUGUAY: FA finally gets its way
The amnesty law is now technically dead. After two referendums preserved the so-called Ley de Caducidad, in 1989 and 2009, and its annulment was defeated in congress last May, the ruling Frente Amplio (FA) has pushed through a law invalidating it instead. All human rights abuses committed during the dictatorship will now be reclassified as “crimes against humanity”; the statute of limitations on military-era crimes, which would have expired on 1 November, has also been removed.
- Colombia turns its back on Uribe
- VENEZUELA: And then there were three
- ECUADOR: Victimised Correa strikes back
- PERU: Forgive and forget
- TRACKING TRENDS
- BRAZIL: Brazil moves to reconcile with its history
- URUGUAY: FA finally gets its way
- ARGENTINA: Emboldened Fernández makes economic changes
- TRACKING TRENDS
- MEXICO: Michoacán mayor assassinated
- TRACKING TRENDS
- NICARAGUA: Ortega poised for dubious victory
- GUATEMALA: Could the weather have electoral implications?
- TRACKING TRENDS
- Lightning strikes Lobo
- Quotes of the week