Weekly Report - 12 April 2005

Quotes of the week

Postscript 12 April 2005 Modified: 12 April 2005 1167 views
“The trend is clearly towards the improverishment of Paraguayan society."

Guillermo Stanley, president of Paraguay's association of industrialists, presenting a study on the country's inability to benefit from its membership of Mercosur.

“There is no leader of the opposition."

Eduardo Duhalde, former president of Argentina, sidestepping calls for him to assume that role.

“They can't go on eternally dependent on the national treasury [or] on social assistance. It is necessary for the settlements to emancipate themselves."

José Dirceu, Brazil's presidential chief of staff, on the settlements of landless peasants under the agrarian reform programme.

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