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Weekly Report - 04 April 2012 (WR-12-14)
Campaign begins at frantic pace
Mexico’s presidential election campaign set off at a rattling pace this week. No sooner did the campaign officially start at the turn of midnight on 30 March than the three main contenders began the process of fleshing out their plans to bring about economic and political change in Mexico. By mid-week the focus of the campaign quickly shifted to the country’s omnipresent security problem, perhaps the most important issue for voters.
- Piñera’s problem portfolio provokes party political pressure
- ARGENTINA: Waving a nationalist flag with each hand
- BRAZIL: UK companies can only dream of Bndes
- PARAGUAY: The challenge of topsy-turvy growth
- TRACKING TRENDS
- VENEZUELA: Spending controls lifted
- COLOMBIA: Farc hostage release marks end of the beginning
- BOLIVIA: Evo quells remaining doubts
- TRACKING TRENDS
- Campaign begins at frantic pace
- GUATEMALA: Pérez Molina faces indigenous unrest
- COSTA RICA: Ministerial scandal jeopardises tax reform
- TRACKING TRENDS
- Ortega leads a different sort of revolution
- Quotes of the week