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Weekly Report - 3 July 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)
Andean
The Venezuelan government rejected claims this week by the US
ambassador to Colombia, William Brownfield, that there had been a “tremendous
increase" in the volume of drugs passing through Venezuela.... Read More
President Evo Morales faced a new setback with the
victory of
opposition candidate Savina Cuéllar in the Chuquisaca
prefectural elections.... Read More
President Alan García promulgated a law this week under which some 4m
workers in micro and small businesses (Mypes) in the informal sector will be
entitled to social security and pension payments as well as enhanced labour
rights.... Read More
COLOMBIA | Growth slows.... Read More
Brazil & Southern Cone
Mercosur displayed unusual unity in its latest summit this week.... Read More
President-elect Fernando Lugo's hopes of pushing through his
ambitious social agenda improved last week after his coalition Alianza
Patriótica para el Cambio (APC) succeeded in striking a deal with the party of
retired General Lino Oviedo, the Unión Nacional de Ciudadanos Eticos (Unace).... Read More
Last week, just three months before municipal elections, the
public ombudsman published a list of 3,178 politicians whose campaign accounts
in previous elections have been rejected because of irregularities.... Read More
Brazil's central bank published a report last week increasing its
inflation forecast for 2008 to 6%, from an earlier estimate of 4.6%.... Read More
Congress began to debate the issues at the heart of the dispute
between the government and the four farming unions in earnest this week.... Read More
CHILE | Mercosur deal on services.... Read More
Mexico & Nafta
The image of Mexico's police took another knock when a video of
training for special police forces in León, in Guanajuato state, was leaked.... Read More
MEXICO | The economy.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
The Plan Puebla Panamá (PPP), an initiative designed to spearhead
regional integration and regeneration, was rechristened Proyecto Mesoamérica
during a meeting of the nine heads of state of Mexico, Colombia and Central
America in Villahermosa, the capital of the southern state of Tabasco in Mexico
on 28 June.... Read More
Congress has voted to award President Martín Torrijos “extraordinary
powers" for the next two months in order to carry out security reforms.... Read More
President Alvaro Colom declared three days of national mourning after
interior minister Carlos Vinicio Gómez and his deputy, Edgar Hernández died in a
helicopter crash on 27 June, along with the helicopter's pilot and co-pilot.... Read More
COSTA RICA | Trade deficit balloons.... Read More
Postscript
Fidel Castro last week pronounced a remarkable eulogy of his brother Raúl and
the reforms he has carried out since assuming the presidency of Cuba.... Read More
“(President Alvaro) Uribe is using the people as a dictator would use the
army or the police.... Read More
Leader
President Alvaro Uribe is calling for congress to
approve a referendum on whether to restage the 2006 presidential elections.... Read More
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