May 13, 2008
SourceMexPRESIDENT FELIPE CALDERON'S ADMINISTRATION UNDER PRESSURE TO TAKE EMERGENCY STEPS TO AVERT FOOD CRISIS
- Prices for basic goods increasing
- Administration urged to create strategic food reserve
- Mexico vulnerable because of dependence on imports
- Food sovereignty an issue during May Day celebration
- Administration rules out export controls
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES APPROVES CHANGES TO ANNUAL INFORME; PRESIDENT NO LONGER MUST BE PRESENT IN CONGRESS
- Chaotic addresses in 2006, 2007 prompted changes
NotiCenREGION DISCUSSES STRATEGY TO ENSURE FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AND SECURITY
- Contributions of land and money needed
- Central America on the losing end
WHOLESALE MURDER IN HONDURAN PRISONS CONTINUES AS NINE ARE SLAUGHTERED IN SAN PEDRO SULA AND 18 DIE AT TAMARA
- A fatal move with the best intentions
- Advance warnings; it was inevitable
NotiSurGENERAL: ONGOING DIPLOMATIC ANTAGONISM BETWEEN ECUADOR AND COLOMBIA FOLLOWING COLOMBIAN ATTACK ON FARC IN ECUADOR
- Political fallout throughout region
- Correa calls on OAS to act regarding killed Ecuadoran
- Colombia: Ecuadoran government too "permissive" with FARC
- Ecuadoran autopsy: four "executions" at attack site
ARGENTINA: FARM PROTESTS FORCE RESIGNATION OF ECONOMY MINISTER
- Lousteau out, Carlos Fernandez in
- Poll: confidence in President Fernandez dropping
- Critics: new economy minister too loyal to president
- Farm-tax protest blockades renewed
