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Weekly Report - 26 February 2009 (ISSN 1741-7422)
ECUADOR: Correa uses US as scapegoat
For the first time since coming to power two years ago President
Rafael Correa has been forced on the defensive. He does not look comfortable in
the role. The alleged complicity of a former deputy interior minister, José
Ignacio Chauvín, with a drug-trafficking group linked to the Fuerzas Armadas
Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) forced Correa to deny his government was
tainted by narcopolitics. In what looks like a ploy to divert attention away
from the scandal ahead of April's general elections, he is escalating diplomatic
tension with the US. This has allowed him to go on the offensive, where he is in
his element. Last week he ordered the expulsion of the second US embassy
official in 10 days.
- DAS scandal could jeopardise US assistance to Colombia
- PERU: PAP stalwart picks up interior portfolio
- BOLIVIA: US relations receive a knock
- ECUADOR: Correa uses US as scapegoat
- TRACKING TRENDS
- BRAZIL: Opposition files suit against Lula and Rousseff
- ARGENTINA: Ruling party bleeding support
- TRACKING TRENDS
- MEXICO: Intimidation and assassination stalk Chihuahua
- TRACKING TRENDS
- REGION: Stanford fraud overshadows Antiguan elections
- NICARAGUA: Ortega under pressure
- GUATEMALA: New suspect in Salvadorean murder case
- TRACKING TRENDS
- Old guard still ruling the roost in Cuba
- Quotes of the Week