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Weekly Report - 15 July 2010 (WR-10-28)
PANAMA: Martinelli backtracks over anti-union law
President Ricardo Martinelli has been forced to suspend the most
contentious provisions of a recently approved law which weakens labour and
environmental legislation [WR-10-24], after trade union unrest turned deadly in
the western Bocas del Toro region. The reversal, albeit temporary, is
significant given Martinelli's previous intransigence in the face of union
demands. It suggests the law, the most controversial of his right-wing
pro-business administration, may have been a grave political miscalculation.
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- MEXICO: Calderón drops Gómez Mont
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