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Weekly Report - 10 July 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)
EL SALVADOR: New economy minister faces rough ride
President Tony Saca swore in a new economy minister last week after
Yolanda Mayora de Gavidia departed in order to stand for director of the Central
American secretariat for economic integration (Sieca). Her replacement, Ricardo
Esmahán, faces the formidable task of persuading the Salvadorean electorate that
the ruling Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Arena) is capable of riding what
Saca is describing as “the perfect storm" - a US slowdown combined with high
food and energy prices. If he fails, there is a good chance that the left-wing
opposition Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), guided by
its moderate and charismatic candidate Mauricio Funes, will come to power next
March.
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- COLOMBIA: Uribe's support surges on Betancourt rescue
- ECUADOR: Constituent assembly enhances executive power
- TRACKING TRENDS
- ARGENTINA: Government scores pyrrhic victory over farmers
- BRAZIL: Recognition, but still no membership
- BRAZIL: Supreme court clashes with federal police
- CHILE: Spectre of stagflation haunts Velasco
- TRACKING TRENDS
- MEXICO: Pemex reform runs into problems
- MEXICO: Ebrard sacks police chief
- TRACKING TRENDS
- EL SALVADOR: New economy minister faces rough ride
- GUATEMALA: Colom names new interior minister
- PANAMA: Varela clinches victory in PP primaries
- TRACKING TRENDS
- Montesinos damages Fujimorismo in Peru
- Quotes of the week