NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs articles from September 2003

NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs archives from September 2003

SALVADORAN CENTER STAKED OUT BY HECTOR SILVA.
September 4, 2003... The popular former mayor of San Salvador, Hector Silva, has joined the field as a presidential candidate in El Salvador's March 21, 2004, elections. Silva accepted the nomination of a recently formed centrist coalition of the Partido Democrata...

COSTA RICAN SECRET FUNDS HIDE POLITICAL FAVORS, CORRUPTION.
September 4, 2003... A secret political fund has been discovered in Costa Rica that has allegedly been used to pay presidential advisors and high-level government officials, and to finance certain activities within several ministries. The fund, whose official...

REGION REACTS TO LEGISLATION TARGETING ADOLESCENTS.
September 11, 2003... The Honduran government's "anti-gang" legislation (see NotiCen, 2003-08-28) has provoked intense negative reaction from human rights, religious, academic, and legal sectors. The legislation enabled law-enforcement authorities to pursue a...

COSTA RICA REACTS TO CHILD ABUSE, IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC.
September 11, 2003... A US-based school for troubled teenagers in Costa Rica was closed by youth authorities in May, but it continues to generate controversy as owners try to reopen the facility. Dundee Ranch Academy was closed following an investigation that...

REGION: W.T.O. FAILS; CENTRAL AMERICA WILL FEEL REPERCUSSIONS.
September 18, 2003... World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations collapsed in Cancun on Sept. 14, just as Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) negotiations got underway in Managua. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), campesino groups, students, and other...

REGION STRUGGLES WITH W.T.O. AFTERMATH IN CAFTA NEGOTIATIONS.
September 18, 2003... With no time to recover from a humiliating defeat in Cancun the day before at the hands of a newly organized developing world (see other article, this issue), the US opened the seventh round of negotiations toward a Central America Free Trade...

REGION: ITS CENTRAL AMERICA'S TURN, BUT NO CONSENSUS ON O.A.S. CANDIDATE.
September 25, 2003... El Salvador's President Francisco Flores went to Belize early in September with the prospect of gaining consensus among Central American governments on his quest to become Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS). The...

CUBA NEWS IN BRIEF.
September 25, 2003... Some anti-Castro elements in the US jumped on a State Department claim that television programming to Iran was being jammed in Cuba to add that claim to a long list of alleged Cuban outrages. Two Cuban dissidents caused confusion and...