21.   That could weaken the peso.

22.   That pushed stock prices down and weakened the peso.

23.   The crisis is expected to weaken the peso over the short term, while boosting inflation and interest rates, analysts said.

24.   The central bank tends to buy dollars when it hits the bottom of the sliding band, to weaken the peso.

25.   The extra dollars in the economy could weaken the peso.

26.   The reports briefly sent stock prices lower and weakened the peso on concern that the president might reshuffle his cabinet and deviate from his current social and economic policies.

27.   The U.S. interest rise also weakened the peso to a one-week low.

28.   This is aimed at weakening the peso, which tends to help Colombian exporters by making their products more competitive in foreign markets.

29.   Urrutia said the central bank has intervened in currency markets in recent weeks to weaken the peso, as many business leaders and the government demanded.

30.   But critics, like former president Carlos Menem, have sharply attack the plan as a disguised move to weaken the peso.