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Weekly Report - 10 July 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)
COLOMBIA: Uribe's support surges on Betancourt rescue
A total of 77% of Colombians would support a bid by President Alvaro
Uribe to seek a third term, according to a poll released this week in the wake
of the military rescue of 15 hostages, including French-Colombian politician
Ingrid Betancourt, from the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc).
Betancourt said Uribe should be entitled to run again if that was what the
electorate wanted. The constitutional court, unsurprisingly, opted not to try
and swim against this tide of popularity and announced that it would not
investigate the legality of the 2006 elections won by Uribe as requested by the
supreme court last week [WR-08-26].
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- 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
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- Quotes of the week