Weekly Report - 13 March 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)

Colombia's recent bombing in Ecuador of a camp of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) and the subsequent diplomatic fallout in the Andean region also had widespread repercussions in Brazil last week. The reason is the Farc's membership of the São Paulo Forum (FSP, in the Portuguese acronym). This is the conference of leftwing forces in Latin America, founded in 1990 by Brazil's President Lula da Silva and his Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT).