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Weekly Report - 26 June 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)
COLOMBIA: New interior minister faces big challenges
President Alvaro Uribe appointed a new interior and justice minister
this week after the previous incumbent, Carlos Holguín, unexpectedly decided to
step down on 20 June in order to pursue his presidential ambitions next year.
Uribe was reputedly less than impressed with Holguín's fulfilment of his role as
the bridge between the executive and legislative branches of government. His
successor, Fabio Valencia Cossío, faces the immediate challenge of marshalling
support in congress for a new political reform bill, after 20 July and pushing
through a constitutional amendment allowing Uribe to seek a third
term.
- Region unites to condemn polemical EU directive on immigration
- 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