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Weekly Report - 26 June 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)
HONDURAS: Congress approves polemical police law
Congress rushed through a new police law last week designed to strike
a blow against organised crime. The supreme court was joined by a host of human
rights groups in raising concerns about the concentration of power in the hands
of a discredited police force. The government had tried to counter this
criticism by including within the law some stringent measures to control
corruption in the police, such as drug tests and lie detector tests.
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- BOLIVIA: Tarija votes for autonomy
- PERU: Uneasy truce after Moquegua mining protest
- ECUADOR: Constituent assembly at crisis point
- COLOMBIA: New interior minister faces big challenges
- TRACKING TRENDS
- BRAZIL: Congressmen seek to scrap privileges
- BRAZIL: Stepping up food production to curb inflation
- CHILE: Bachelet forced to lean on opposition
- TRACKING TRENDS
- MEXICO: Finger-pointing starts after disco deaths
- MEXICO: Central bank ignores Calderón
- TRACKING TRENDS
- CUBA: EU overtures rebuffed… for now
- GUATEMALA: New political movements emerge
- HONDURAS: Congress approves polemical police law
- TRACKING TRENDS
- Ecuador pushes for regional monetary integration
- Quote of the week