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Weekly Report - 03 September 2009 (WR-09-35)
REGION: China boosts trade ties in isthmus
A Chinese business delegation visited
Nicaragua and Guatemala this week suggesting the region remains very much on
Beijing's radar. Costa Rica is currently the only country in Central America to
have forged diplomatic ties with China (these were established in mid 2007); the
others all recognise Taiwan.
- 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