NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs articles from November 2002

NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs archives from November 2002

EL SALVADOR: SAN SALVADOR MAYOR LOSES F.M.L.N. SUPPORT IN ATTEMPT TO END DOCTORS STRIKE.
November 7, 2002... San Salvador mayor Hector Silva has decided to put his run at re-election (see NotiCen, 2000-03-16) at risk in an effort to resolve a doctors strike now well into its second month. Health workers walked off the job on Sept. 19 in response to...

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC IN BOND BAILOUT BATTLE.
November 7, 2002... Battling an economic downturn that has left the country depleted of international reserves, the Dominican Republic may issue government bonds to replenish the Treasury and pay its debts. The idea has economists and politicians debating the...

HAITI: ALLIANCE STRENGTHENS IMPUNITY.
November 7, 2002... [The following article by James Joseph is reprinted with the permission of Noticias Aliadas in Lima, Peru. It appeared in the Nov. 4, 2002, edition of Latinamerica Press.] People walking by Martyr's Place on the anniversary of Haiti's...

CUBA: NEWLY FORMED DISSIDENT COALITION COMPETES WITH VARELA PROJECT SUPPORTERS FOR CONTROL OF INTERNAL OPPOSITION.
November 14, 2002... The international press began reporting in late October on the emergence of a new dissident umbrella organization in Cuba. The Associated Press called it "a kind of opposition parliament." It not only opposes the government, but also opposes...

EL SALVADOR HANDS P.P.P. ANOTHER SETBACK.
November 14, 2002... Electrical workers in El Salvador went on strike to protest the firing of 29 workers and demand their return. But behind the strike lies resistance to privatization, and, behind that, an Inter-American Development Bank (BID) loan and a...

READINESS VARIES FOR C.A.F.T.A. NEGOTIATIONS.
November 14, 2002... The Costa Rican newspaper La Nacion recently published an isthmuswide report measuring the degree of readiness and expertise that each of the Central American countries will bring to the table when negotiations with the Northern Giant begin on...

EL SALVADOR DEALS WITH NEW RULES FOR REMITTANCES.
November 21, 2002... The US government has imposed new rules on the companies that handle the transactions by which immigrant workers send money back to their home countries. The strict federal rules were imposed over the past several months and more are slated to...

COSTA RICAN INEQUALITY GROWS AS EDUCATION FALTERS.
November 21, 2002... For the fourth year in a row, the thread between Costa Rica's richest and its poorest has stretched. Each year for the past eight, the country has tracked its progress toward equality, or lack of it, with a State of the Nation Report (see...

U.N. VERIFICATION TEAM IN GUATEMALA CRITICIZES CONTINUED HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES AND INCREASE IN THE MILITARY BUDGET.
November 21, 2002... In a report released this month, the UN Mission to Guatemala (MINUGUA) criticized the administration of Guatamalan President Alfonso Portillo, of the conservative Frente Republicano Guatemalteco (FRG), for failing to investigate and punish the...