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Weekly Report - 25 May 2004

Quotes of the week

“[Berger's] electoral discourse, which portrayed the FRG as the devil, was incoherent. Now he has to swallow his words and negotiate with them. This will not be accepted by the public."

Renzo Rosal, Guatemalan political analyst, on President Berger's first major encounter with practical political considerations.

“My own personal experience is that many Haitians, whenever they organize elections, even elections to be president of a football club, they always try to manipulate [them]. I don't want to take that chance."

Gérard Latortue, prime minister of Haiti, on the need for the international supervision of elections.

“[Mexico has] a congress designed in the 19th century, with practices of the 1940s and 21st-century pretensions."

Esteban David Rodrí­guez, writer and journalist, in his new book on the Mexican legislature.

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