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Weekly Report - 19 March 2009 (ISSN 1741-7422)
COLOMBIA: Calling time on Plan Colombia
Colombia's Vice-President Francisco Santos
made a wholly unexpected announcement this week: Plan Colombia, the US-funded
counter-narcotics and counter-insurgency initiative, “is no longer necessary" he
said in an interview with the national daily, El Tiempo. The foreign ministry
rushed out a statement disowning his comments as did his cousin, the defence
minister, Juan Manuel Santos, who had only just returned from Washington
canvassing support for the financial backing to be extended. It is conceivable,
however, that the Vice-President, who has a reputation for being a loose cannon,
was encouraged to make his remarks to show the US that Colombia is not an
unconditional ally to be taken for granted.
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- GUATEMALA: Colom replaces more ministers
- PANAMA: Candidates under pressure to reveal campaign donors
- TRACKING TRENDS
- BRAZIL: Lula meets Obama in the White House
- BRAZIL: Slowing economy prompts interest-rate cut
- ARGENTINA: Fernández tries to tinker with elections
- CHILE: Bachelet rings the changes
- TRACKING TRENDS
- VENEZUELA: Chávez centralises power
- BOLIVIA: Morales begins land reform
- COLOMBIA: Calling time on Plan Colombia
- ECUADOR: Correa's aggression pays dividends
- TRACKING TRENDS
- MEXICO: Obama to visit Mexico in mid-April
- MEXICO: PRD unravelling
- TRACKING TRENDS
- Stanford factor helps Spencer win re-election in Antigua
- Quotes of the Week