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- From: World Perspectives <worldpnews@igc.apc.org>
- Subject: South America news
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:13:11 GMT
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- /* Written 4:13 pm Nov 10, 1992 by worldpnews@igc.apc.org in igc:worldp.samples */
- /* ---------- "South America news" ---------- */
- From WORLD PERSPECTIVES. Box 3074, Madison, WI 53704
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- COLOMBIA
- Colombian President, Cesar Gaviria, declared a state of emergency
- late Nov 8, following a weekend of attacks be guerrillas that left
- at least 40 people dead. Gaviria said the state of emergency allows
- a series of legal measures aimed at what he called "raving
- fanatics."
-
- His announcement came on the heels of a sharp escalation of the
- offensive by the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces. It included
- the killing of 16 police officers guarding oil wells and a series
- of bomb blasts in the capital, Bogota. There were also 25 bomb
- attacks in only one day in Medellin.
-
- Gaviria, whose popularity rating has plunged to only 15%, cancelled
- peace talks with the guerrillas scheduled for last month because of
- the renewed violence.
-
- Gaviria announced ways to undermine guerrilla financing, such as
- denying government contracts to Colombian and foreign companies
- which funnel money to the rebels. He said politicians who have
- contact with the guerrillas will also be suspended and the radio
- and television stations will be prevented from broadcasting reports
- on military operations being carried out. The media are also
- prohibited from printing guerrilla statements. (R. France 11/9)
-
-
- PERU
- The Peruvian President, Alberto Fujimori, has again said he thinks
- that Abimael Guzman, the captured leader of the Sendero Luminoso -
- Shining Path - should be executed for the crime of genocide.
- Fujimori pointed out that the UN has categorized the SP as a
- movement with genocidal characteristics, and that therefore the
- Peruvian government was looking for a formula which would allow it
- to execute Guzman.
-
- The issue of the death penalty is one that is expected to play a
- large part in the election for a Constituent Assembly to reform
- Peru's constitution. This election is scheduled for the 22nd of
- this month.
-
- Meanwhile, Fujimori, who assumed near-dictatorial powers in April,
- has called for a national referendum that could lift Peru's
- constitutional ban on presidential re-elections. Contradicting
- earlier statements that he is planning to leave office when his
- term ends in 1995, Fujimori said in a television interview that
- "the Peruvian people and not a small group of congressmen, should
- decide the re-election issue in a referendum." (Spanish Radio 11/9)
-
-
- ARGENTINA
- A general strike, the first against the government of the current
- Argentinean President, Carlos Menem, organized by the General Work
- Confederation, the country's trade union umbrella organization, has
- received less workers support than was expected by the organizers.
-
- The strike, which aims at protesting against the government's
- drastic austerity program which is currently in effect, has had an
- impact on Argentina's main industrial centers, as well as on the
- rail transportation system. However, it had not much effect on
- business in general, education or private banking.
-
- Meanwhile, Menem on Nov 9 defended his government's economic
- adjustment plans, which have included the privatization of many
- state enterprises such as the national telephone company and
- Argentina's airlines. (Spanish radio 11/9)
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