NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs articles from December 2007

NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs archives from December 2007

SUPPORT FOR MARKET ECONOMY DECLINING, REGION WANTS BETTER DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH, SAYS LATINOBAROMETRO.
December 6, 2007... Central Americans, like people throughout Latin America generally, are changing in their outlook and expectations, says this year's Latinobarometro poll. Taken in 18 countries across the region, the poll has tracked changes in public attitudes...

FIDEL CASTRO NOMINATED TO CUBA'S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, UNLEASHING SPECULATION ON RETURN TO POWER.
December 6, 2007... Cuban President Fidel Castro has not made a public appearance in Cuba for more than a year, following a series of surgeries that left him weakened and placed him on a very long, slow path to recovery. While on that path, he ceded temporary...

CUBA TO PERMIT HUMAN RIGHTS MONITORING; U.S.-LED CRITICS DOWNPLAY CUBAN GAINS.
December 13, 2007... Cuba's Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque announced on Dec. 10 that his country would sign the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. This represents a...

GUATEMALA PASSES ADOPTION LAW, POTENTIALLY ENDING NOTORIOUS INTERNATIONAL CHILD-TRAFFICKING RACKET.
December 13, 2007... Guatemala's legislature passed a law Dec. 11 that could and should put an end to the country's deserved reputation as a free market for trafficking in babies, the adoptions racket. Social groups within the country and the international...