No. 2006, January - January 2006
Index
- ARGENTINA AND BRAZIL PAY OFF DEBTS TO INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND TO GAIN GREATER ECONOMIC AUTONOMY.
- ARGENTINA AND URUGUAY STOP SENDING MILITARY TO TRAIN AT THE U.S. SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS.
- ARGENTINA COMMEMORATES 30 YEARS SINCE MILITARY JUNTA TOPPLED DEMOCRATIC RULE.
- ARGENTINA HIKES PRICES ON GAS IMPORTED TO CHILE, CHILE SAYS ARGENTINE ACTIONS ARE "FRUSTRATING".
- ARGENTINA: 'LEFTIST' RULERS PUT POOR PEOPLE'S MOVEMENTS IN A FIX.
- ARGENTINA: BUENOS AIRES CRACKS DOWN ON "SLAVE-LABOR" SHOPS AFTER FIRE KILLS SIX BOLIVIAN IMMIGRANTS.
- ARGENTINA: DIRTY WAR POLICE INVESTIGATOR SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON.
- ARGENTINA: FORMER PRESIDENT AND PARTY FOUNDER JUAN PERON REBURIED AMID VIOLENT CONFRONTATIONS.
- ARGENTINA: GOVERNMENT RESCINDS CONTRACT WITH AGUAS ARGENTINAS, RENATIONALIZES WATER SERVICE.
- ARGENTINA: MAYOR OF BUENOS AIRES IMPEACHED, PUT ON TRIAL FOR FAILURE TO PREVENT DEATHS IN 2004 NIGHTCLUB FIRE.
- ARGENTINA: MOTHERS OF PLAZA DE MAYO STAGE FINAL "MARCH OF RESISTANCE" AFTER 25 YEARS.
- ARGENTINA: POLITICAL TRIAL REMOVES MAYOR OF BUENOS AIRES FROM OFFICE.
- ARGENTINA: PRESIDENT NESTOR KIRCHNER AND OPPOSITION FIGURES LAY GROUNDWORK FOR 2007 PRESIDENTIAL RACE.
- ARGENTINA: PRESIDENT NESTOR KIRCHNER REPLACES ECONOMY MINISTER.
- ARGENTINA: PROSECUTORS SEEK ARREST WARRANT OF IRANIAN EX-PRESIDENT HASHEMI RAFSANJANI IN JEWISH-CENTER BOMBING.
- BOLIVIA: CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY STALLED.
- BOLIVIA: EVO MORALES INAUGURATED AS PRESIDENT.
- BOLIVIA: GENERAL ELECTION MAKES COCALERO EVO MORALES FIRST INDIGENOUS PRESIDENT.
- BOLIVIA: GOVERNMENT SAYS NATIONALIZATION OF NATURAL-GAS RESOURCES COMPLETE.
- BOLIVIA: HEAD OF HYDROCARBONS MINISTRY, STATE PETROLEUM COMPANY RESIGN, RAISING QUESTIONS ABOUT COMMITMENT TO NATIONALIZATION.
- BOLIVIA: IMF CANCELS US$251 MILLION IN BOLIVIAN DEBT AS PART OF 19-COUNTRY PACKAGE.
- BOLIVIA: MINE CONFLICT IN ORURO LEAVES 16 DEAD AND DOZENS WOUNDED.
- BOLIVIA: PRESIDENT EVO MORALES NATIONALIZES NATURAL GAS RESOURCES.
- BOLIVIA: PRESIDENT EVO MORALES PREPARES LAND-REFORM PROGRAM.
- BOLIVIA: PRESIDENT EVO MORALES WINS MAJORITY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL ASSEMBLY, BUT MISSES TWO-THIRDS MARK.
- BOLIVIA: SOY PRODUCERS, FEARING MARKET LOSS IN COLOMBIA AND PERU, PRESSURE GOVERNMENT FOR DEAL WITH U.S.
- BOLIVIA: TOP COMMANDERS REMOVED FOR SENDING MISSILES TO THE U.S. FOR DECOMMISSIONING.
- BRAZIL ANNOUNCES EXPANDED URANIUM ENRICHMENT PROGRAM.
- BRAZIL: DROUGHT DEPLETES AMAZON, REPORT SHOWS RAIN FOREST DISAPPEARING MUCH MORE QUICKLY THAN PRIOR ESTIMATES.
- BRAZIL: FINANCE MININSTER ANTONIO PALOCCI STEPS DOWN OVER CORRUPTION CHARGES.
- BRAZIL: LONDON POLICE WILL NOT BE PROSECUTED FOR GUNNING DOWN BRAZILIAN NATIONAL.
- BRAZIL: PRESIDENT LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCES CAMPAIGN FOR RE-ELECTION.
- BRAZIL: PRESIDENT LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA REGAINS LEAD IN POLLS, JOSE SERRA WILL NOT RUN AGAINST HIM.
- BRAZIL: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION GOES TO SECOND ROUND BETWEEN PRESIDENT LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA AND GERALDO ALCKMIN.
- BRAZIL: PRISON-BASED GANG WARS WITH SAO PAULO POLICE, 170 DEAD.
- BRAZIL: RUNOFF ELECTION HANDS SECOND TERM TO PRESIDENT LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA BY WIDE MARGIN.
- CHILE: COPPER MINING SUBCONTRACTORS STAGE STRIKE FOR BONUSES, BETTER CONDITIONS AS PRICES HIT RECORD LEVELS.
- CHILE: COURT PUTS FORMER DICTATOR GEN. AUGUSTO PINOCHET UNDER HOUSE ARREST.
- CHILE: GOVERNMENT BROADENS WOMEN'S ACCESS TO MORNING-AFTER PILL.
- CHILE: MASSIVE STUDENT PROTESTS DEMAND GREATER STATE SUPPORT FOR EDUCATION, LEGAL REFORMS.
- CHILE: MICHELLE BACHELET INAUGURATED PRESIDENT.
- CHILE: MONTH-LONG STRIKE AT ESCONDIDA, WORLD'S LARGEST PRIVATE COPPER MINE, SETTLED WITH 5% RAISE FOR WORKERS.
- CHILE: PINOCHET-ERA SECT LEADER PAUL SCHAEFER SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS FOR SEXUAL ABUSE OF MINORS.
- CHILE: PRESIDENT MICHELLE BACHELET SHUFFLES THREE CABINET MINISTERS.
- CHILE: SOCIALIST MICHELLE BACHELET WINS RUNOFF VOTE TO BECOME CHILE'S FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT.
- COLOMBIA AND CHILE PURSUE TRADE AGREEMENT.
- COLOMBIA SIGNS FREE-TRADE AGREEMENT WITH CHILE.
- COLOMBIA SIGNS FREE-TRADE AGREEMENT WITH THE U.S.
- COLOMBIA: ALLEGATIONS OF MASSIVE VOTE FRAUD LEAD TO PROSECUTION OF EX-CHIEF OF SECRET POLICE.
- COLOMBIA: ALVARO URIBE INAUGURATED FOR SECOND TERM AS PRESIDENT.
- COLOMBIA: ALVARO URIBE WINS SECOND TERM AS PRESIDENT.
- COLOMBIA: BROTHER OF DECEASED PARAMILITARY LEADER ACCUSED OF HIS MURDER.
- COLOMBIA: GOVERNMENT CALLS OFF NEGOTIATIONS WITH FARC AFTER BOMBING IN BOGOTA.
- COLOMBIA: PARTIES ALLIED TO PRESIDENT ALVARO URIBE WIN CONTROL OF CONGRESS.
- COLOMBIA: PRESIDENT ALVARO URIBE SEEKS TO RESTRICT UN HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP, SAY DIPLOMATS.
- COLOMBIA: REPORTS SHOW QUADRUPLING OF DISPLACED PERSONS IN PAST DECADE.
- COLOMBIA: TIES TO PARAMILITARY GROUPS BRING DOWN SEVERAL CONGRESSMEMBERS, IMPLICATE FOREIGN RELATIONS MINISTER.
- COLOMBIA: TOP COURT DECRIMINZALIZES ABORTION IN CASES OF INCEST, RAPE, DANGER TO MOTHER'S LIFE.
- COLOMBIA: TOP COURT STRIKES DOWN PORTIONS OF PARAMILITARY-DEMOBILIZATION LAW.
- COLOMBIA: TOP GENERAL RESIGNS AFTER REVELATIONS OF TORTURE OF LOWER-RANKING SOLDIERS.
- COLOMBIA:ALLEGATIONS OF PARAMILITARY FINANCING FOR CANDIDATES SHAKES UP CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION LISTS.
- COMMUNITY OF ANDEAN NATIONS ATTEMPTS TO RECOVER AFTER VENEZUELA LEAVES BLOC.
- ECUADOR ORDERS OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION OUT OF THE COUNTRY FOR ILLEGAL SALE.
- ECUADOR: AFRO-ECUADORANS CHEER NEW ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAW, BUT PUSH FOR MORE COUNTER-RACISM MEASURES.
- ECUADOR: LEFTIST ECONOMIST RAFAEL CORREA WINS SECOND ROUND OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
- ECUADOR: MILITANT OPPOSITION TO ANDEAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT BLOCKADES SEVERAL REGIONS, MOVES TO CAPITAL.
- ECUADOR: OFFICIAL RESULTS OF FIRST-ROUND PRESIDENTIAL AND CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION TRICKLE IN.
- ECUADOR: PETROLEUM FIELDS MILITARIZED AS PROTESTS DISRUPT CRUDE PRODUCTION.
- ECUADOR: RAFAEL CORREA AND ALVARO NOBOA ADVANCE TO SECOND ROUND OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.
- ECUADOR: VOTERS APPROVE REFERENDUM QUESTIONS ON SOCIAL SPENDING AND RESDISTRIBUTION OF OIL WEALTH.
- EUROPE MEETS A NEWLY DEFIANT LATIN AMERICA AT SUMMIT IN VIENNA.
- INTERNATIONAL COURT AT THE HAGUE REJECTS ARGENTINA'S SUIT TO BLOCK CONSTRUCTION OF URUGUAYAN PULP MILLS.
- LATIN AMERICA APPROACHING FOUR CONSECUTIVE YEARS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH.
- LATIN AMERICA RANKS LAST IN ECONOMIC GROWTH AMONG WORLD'S DEVELOPING REGIONS.
- LATIN AMERICA: UNIONIZED WORKERS AT RISK; THEY FACE FIRINGS, DEATH THREATS AND VIOLENCE FOR DEMANDING RIGHTS.
- PARAGUAY AND ARGENTINA MEET IN EFFORT TO MAKE YACYRETA DAM FINANCIALLY VIABLE.
- PARAGUAY'S EXILED EX-DICTATOR ALFREDO STROESSNER DIES IN BRAZIL.
- PARAGUAY: FORMER PRESIDENT LUIS GONZALEZ MACCHI GIVEN SIX-YEAR SENTENCE FOR ILLEGAL DIVERSION OF US$16 MILLION.
- PARAGUAY: PRESIDENT NICANOR DUARTE ESCAPES CENSURE VOTE IN CONGRESS.
- PERU: ALAN GARCIA PEREZ INAUGURATED AS PRESIDENT.
- PERU: ALAN GARCIA REGAINS PRESIDENCY, DEFEATS OLLANTA HUMALA.
- PERU: ALAN GARCIA TO FACE OLLANTA HUMALA IN RUNOFF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
- PERU: CIVILIAN COURT SENTENCES SENDERO LUMINOSO LEADERS TO LIFE IN PRISON.
- PERU: CONGRESS RATIFIES FREE-TRADE AGREEMENT WITH THE U.S.
- PERU: FORMER SPY CHIEF VLADIMIRO MONTESINOS GETS 20-YEAR SENTENCE FOR ARMS SALE TO COLOMBIAN REBELS.
- PERU: GOVERNMENT COMPLETES ANDEAN FREE TRADE TALKS WITH U.S., BREAKING WITH COLOMBIA AND ECUADOR.
- PERU: MULTIPLE RUPTURES IN CAMISEA GAS PIPELINE LEAD TO INVESTIGATION.
- PERU: OLLANTA HUMALA HEADED TO RUNOFF IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, BUT NAME OF OPPONENT STILL UNCLEAR.
- PERU: PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OLLANTA HUMALA FACES ACCUSATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES.
- PERU: VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ'S REMARKS ON PERUVIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES SETS OFF DIPLOMATIC CONFLICT.
- SOUTH AMERICAN LEADERS PROPOSE MASSIVE TRANSAMAZONIAN GAS PIPELINE FROM VENEZUELA THROUGH BRAZIL AND ARGENTINA.
- U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE IN COLOMBIA GETS ONLY ONE-YEAR RENEWAL FOR CHARTER.
- URUGUAY EXPLORES POSSIBILITY OF FREE TRADE TREATY WITH U.S.
- URUGUAY PAYS 2006 DEBT TO THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND AHEAD OF SCHEDULE.
- URUGUAY: ARGENTINA TAKING CASE AGAINST URUGUAYAN PAPER MILLS TO INTERNATIONAL COURT.
- URUGUAY: GOVERNMENT SPEEDS UP FREE-TRADE NEGOTIATIONS EVEN AS PROTESTS BUILD.
- URUGUAY: PRESIDENT TABARE VAZQUEZ TAKES STEP BACK FROM FREE TRADE TREATY WITH THE U.S.
- VENEZUELA THREATENS TO WITHDRAW FROM COMMUNITY OF ANDEAN NATIONS.
- VENEZUELA: OPPOSITION GROUPS CLOSE RANKS AROUND ZULIA GOVERNOR MANUEL ROSALES AS SOLE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.
- VENEZUELA: PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ SEEKS POSSIBILITY OF MORE RE-ELECTIONS.