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Weekly Report - 24 February 2011 (WR-11-08)
PANAMA: Martinelli hits another nerve
President Ricardo Martinelli's popularity is in freefall. A recent
reform by his pro-business government to the 1963 mining code, opening it up to
foreign government investment, has triggered unrest on a scale comparable with
that sparked by his misjudged attempt at weakening trade union and environmental
legislation (the so-called Ley Chorizo), last July. Martinelli was
forced to backtrack and repeal the law then, and he is once again on shaky
territory, offering hasty reassurances which have yet to convince.
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- URUGUAY: Mujica fights "age-old illness of the Left"
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