Weekly Report - 30 March 2004
Quotes of the week...
"Indigenous America must again recover its mystique and protagonic role [...] Latin America and South America are today impregnated with a new spirit of liberation."
Nicanor Duarte, President of Paraguay.
"I bring independence. I am not a party hack, and have never been one. And I bring ideas."
Jorge Castañeda, former Mexican foreign minister, announcing his bid for the presidency in 2006.
"If you can't maintain the prisons, if you can't pay the teachers, if you can't pay the doctors, if there are deficiencies in healthcare, in public works, in security, the citizens begin to wonder what the State is for."
Jaime Nebot, mayor of Guayaquil, Ecuador.
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In
this month's Latin American Security & Strategic Review
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The special focus
of the latest issue of Latin American Security & Strategic Review
is security & strategy in the Haitian 'solution'. With Aristide gone
and a UN-mandated force on the ground, the priority in Haiti is to restore
order, which means removing the weaponry of the armed rebels and the pro-Aristide
gangs. This is no simple proposition: local politics and US strategic
formulas for the region are involved. In the background, the international
force has emerged at the stage where several actors, from within and beyond
Latin America, are reaffirming their commitment to multilateralism in
the handling of crises. End of preview - This article contains approximately 700 words Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article Not a Subscriber? Enquire Now |