End of preview - This article contains approximately 493 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options
Back
Weekly Report - 03 September 2009 (WR-09-35)
CHILE: Bachelet names new indigenous czar
President Michelle Bachelet is taking steps to defuse tension in
Araucanía (Region IX), where a Mapuche activist was recently killed by
Carabineros. Bachelet appointed José Antonio Viera-Gallo, the minister of the
presidency and go-between with congress, as her new indigenous policy
coordinator. Viera-Gallo promised to send congress a bill shortly to amend the
Pinochet-era anti-terrorism law which is being used to prosecute Mapuche
activists. Passage of the bill through congress will be far from plain sailing:
the presidential candidate for the opposition Coalición por el Cambio, Sebastián
Piñera, last week linked Mapuche activists to foreign terrorist groups.
- Unasur verdict and re-election referendum go Uribe's way
- REGION: Rethinking regional drugs policy
- BOLIVIA: Late addition to electoral race fuels controversy
- TRACKING TRENDS
- BRAZIL: Supreme court dismisses case against Palocci
- BRAZIL: Oil laws come under fire
- CHILE: Bachelet names new indigenous czar
- TRACKING TRENDS
- REGION: Freedom of expression or manipulative distortion?
- GUATEMALA: Court delivers "historic" civil war conviction
- REGION: China boosts trade ties in isthmus
- TRACKING TRENDS
- MEXICO: Calderón admits that more needs to be done
- MEXICO: Oil worries mount
- TRACKING TRENDS
- Struggle ensues over legitimacy of Honduran elections
- Quotes of the week