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Weekly Report - 15 July 2010 (WR-10-28)
Role of Church and State comes under spotlight across Latin America
Relations between Church and State were central to key developments
across Latin America over the course of the last week. In Venezuela, President
Hugo Chávez reminded the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in no uncertain
terms of the principle of the secular State enshrined in the constitution after
lacerating criticism of his Bolivarian Revolution from the Cardinal Archbishop
of Caracas, Jorge Urosa. Roles were reversed in El Salvador where the Church
reminded the government about the secular State by condemning the proposed
imposition by congress of Bible readings in schools in a bid to curb violence
(see page 3-4).
- Role of Church and State comes under spotlight across Latin America
- EL SALVADOR: Can dose of scripture cure moral ills?
- PANAMA: Martinelli backtracks over anti-union law
- TRACKING TRENDS
- COLOMBIA: Santos targets ambitious land reform
- BOLIVIA-CHILE: Talks over key 13-point agenda resume
- TRACKING TRENDS
- BRAZIL: Ambiguous diplomacy creates confusion
- ARGENTINA: Soya dispute with China remains unresolved
- CHILE: The politics of sex and marriage
- TRACKING TRENDS
- MEXICO: Calderón drops Gómez Mont
- MEXICO: A return to post-electoral rows?
- TRACKING TRENDS
- Ortega takes another step closer to re-election
- Quotes of the week