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Weekly Report - 24 March 2011 (WR-11-12)
COLOMBIA: Big changes afoot
The successes keep coming. Fresh from obtaining the position of
secretary general of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) for Colombia,
unthinkable just seven months ago, President Juan Manuel Santos has now overseen
the recovery of the country's investment grade rating by one international
rating agency 12 years after it was lost, and, perhaps most importantly, he has
been awarded extraordinary powers for six months by congress to divide and
restructure various ministries and state agencies. It is fair to say that had
Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez been given similar powers there would have
been an outcry from the opposition, which would have been widely reported in the
international media. How does this differ?
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