WNU #951: No Prime Minister in Haiti, Missing Cubans in Texas

Weekly News Update on the Americas
Issue #951, June 22, 2008

1. Haiti: Still No Prime Minister
2. Mexico: Maquila Union Threatened
3. Cuba: "Missing" Emigres Found in US
4. Latin America: Anger at EU Immigration Measure
5. Links to alternative sources on: Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Central America, El Salvador

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*1. Haiti: Still No Prime Minister
On June 12 Haiti's Chamber of Deputies voted 57-22 with six abstentions to reject President René Garcia Préval's latest nominee for prime minister, Robert Manuel. A commission assigned to study Manuel's qualifications found that he failed to meet two requirements in the 1987 Constitution: he didn't own property in Haiti and he hadn't lived in the country for the last five years consecutively. Manuel is a longtime friend of Préval and was the security chief during Préval's first term as president (1996-2001). The Lavalas Family (FL) party of former president Jean Bertrand Aristide pushed for Manuel's removal in 1999 [see Update #506], and he left the country, returning near the end of 2005. [...]

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