LatinNews Daily Report - 29 February 2012

Guatemala's President Otto Pérez Molina has performed an unexpected volte-face by ditching his campaign stance of opposing drug legalisation and proposing an early top-level debate on the matter with a view to arriving at a regional consensus. He will take the issue to a Central American summit in March, and later to the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, on 14-15 April.