2005 – Page 12

• The PAN’s loss of a key election last Sunday is likely a forecast of the party’s defeat in the

Sovereignty Sinks in Latin America as Dollarization Rises

• Globalization has created as many losers as winners in Latin America. • Of the three fully dollarized Latin American

• Crime in Jamaica has reached Brobdingnagian proportions; 845 people have been gunned down since the start of the year.

• EZLN (Zapatista) subcomandante Marcos announced a General Red Alert on June 19, retreating along with insurgents into the mountainside.

• Costa Rica is no “Switzerland of Latin America,” but merely one more banana republic. • The recently-initiated investigation of

• President Bush is touring the nation this summer in an effort to gain support for his social security reform