NotiSur

PERU: INDIGENOUS PROTESTS SUCCESSFULLY REVERSE PRESIDENT ALAN GARCIA'S DECREES OPENING AMAZON TO OIL EXPLOITATION

• Congress repeals tribal-land-sale decrees
• Garcia restricts freedoms in response to protests
• Criticisms of Garcia's policies toward native peoples
• Economic protests and social conflicts grow

COLOMBIA: RED CROSS, REGIONAL MEDIA GROUPS OBJECT TO MILITARY MISUSE OF EMBLEMS IN HOSTAGE-RESCUE RAID

• Red Cross: Geneva Conventions violated
• Colombian troops impersonated TeleSUR, Ecuavisa journalists
• Uribe government investigates leaker
• Evidence of US involvement

NotiCen

PANAMA'S PRESIDENT MARTIN TORRIJOS REMILITARIZING THE COUNTRY AS RURAL INDIGENOUS SUFFER THE BRUNT, SAY OPPONENTS AND PROTESTERS

• Who gets hurt?

MANY ISTHMUS PRODUCERS IN CONTINUING JEOPARDY AS WORLD COFFEE OUTLOOK IMPROVES

SourceMex

SURGE IN CRIME, INSECURITY MAJOR THEME IN PRESIDENT FELIPE CALDERON'S STATE OF THE UNION REPORT

• Huge marches organized in Mexican capital, other cities
• President suffers some loss of confidence
• New format allows Calderon to avoid public report to Congress

U.S. HEALTH AUTHORITIES LIFT SALMONELLA WARNINGS ON MEXICAN CHILE PEPPERS; BORDER GOVERNORS WORK ON UNIFORM GUIDELINES

• Border agriculture officials working on uniform guidelines

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