NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs articles from October 2004

NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs archives from October 2004

STRANGELY CIRCULAR SAGA OF TERRORISM DISPROVED.
October 14, 2004... Two top Central American vote-grabbing issues fused in late September to create a potential blockbuster. Al-Qaeda infiltration of the region and the proliferation of youth gangs(see NotiCen, 2004-08-19) were brought together in a Washington...

RODRIGUEZ RESIGNS AT ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES, EMBARRASSED COSTA RICA PRESSES PROSECUTION.
October 14, 2004... Miguel Angel Rodriguez has resigned as secretary-general of the Organization of American States (OAS). Simultaneously with his resignation, the attorney general of Costa Rica issued an arrest warrant for the former president, effective upon...

PARALLELS DRAWN WITH IRAQ AS HAITIAN INSURGENTS RISE.
October 21, 2004... Supporters of ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide claim to have imported tactics from insurgents in Iraq as they took to the streets early in October demanding the return of their elected leader. "We'll be in the streets until death...

NICARAGUA COULD LOSE ITS PRESIDENT, AND A WHOLE LOT MORE.
October 21, 2004... The Contralaria General de la Republica (CGR) of Nicaragua has recommended that President Enrique Bolanos be impeached. Bolanos, said the CG, refused to provide information on the origin of money contributed to his electoral campaign in 2001...

TOUTING A SLUGGISH CAFTA IN GUATEMALA.
October 21, 2004... The Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), just last year the focal point of the region's economic relationship with the US, is floundering nearly a year after the countries rushed to meet a December 2003 deadline for delivery of a...

COSTA RICA-NICARAGUA BORDER DISPUTE REVIVED.
October 28, 2004... Disagreement about just where the border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua lies has percolated to the top of the respective countries' international agendas again, and this time there is more at stake than the nationalities of a few landowners....

SINO-CUBAN TIES CONCERN U.S.
October 28, 2004... Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US government and many conservatives have expressed fears that the People's Republic of China is extending its influence in Latin America. While some of these concerns come from the paranoid...

REGION: COFFEE PRICES UP AS U.S. RETURNS TO OIC, BUT CRISIS CONTINUES FOR PRODUCERS.
October 28, 2004... Coffee has begun a price turnaround that may signal some relief to long-suffering producer nations. Production declines brought about by a world glut that at one point drove prices down to below US$.50 per pound (standard measure for this...