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Weekly Report - 3 May 2005
NICARAGUA: Protests take Bolaños administration to the brink
For a brief spell last week it looked as if President Enrique Bolaños might be facing the same fate as Lucio Gutiérrez in Ecuador or, earlier, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada in Bolivia. A student-led protest against a 20% increase in bus fares had mushroomed into a shutdown of Managua, clashes with the police, a military alert, and a Sandinista-led coalition of mayors formally demanding Bolaños's resignation.
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- ECUADOR: A most challenging start for Palacio
- COLOMBIA: Uribe fires new batch of dissident generals
- Tracking trends
- BRAZIL: MST excuses Lula, targets two ministers
- Tracking trends
- MEXICO: Crackdown on 'fringe' Christian churches
- MEXICO-US: Unease at official endorsement of 'Minutemen'
- Tracking trends
- NICARAGUA: Protests take Bolaños administration to the brink
- COSTA RICA: Pacheco's last year looks grey
- HAITI: Neptune released on medical grounds
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: PRD wants elections back in synch
- GUYANA: Unrepentant Gajraj bows out, slowly
- Tracking trends
- Exchange rates
- Inflation in the region
- The stock market in figures
- El Niño & La Niña by no other name
- Quotes of the week
- REGION: US swings OAS vote in favour of Insulza