W. T. Whitney Jr.
LATEST ARTICLES BY W. T. Whitney Jr.
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Chilean Communist freed as Colombia drops charges
June 27, 2011Accused of rounding up money for the FARC, Manuel Olate was detained for three months as a first step to extradition.
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Afghanistan most dangerous place for women
June 21, 2011One in 11 women die in childbirth and 87 percent are illiterate.
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Cuba: U.S. anti-government payouts continue
June 20, 2011U.S. Senator John Kerry has raised questions as to waste and corruption in distributing U.S. funds to anti-government groups in Cuba.
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Nicaraguan economic trends are positive
June 17, 2011Nationally, unemployment dropped from 8.2 percent in January 2010 to the present 6.8 percent, with 325,000 new jobs created.
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In Uganda and America, pleas to save mothers’ lives
June 17, 2011Hundreds demonstrated outside the Constitutional Court, asking it to declare that Ugandan mothers dying in childbirth represent a violation of the right to life.
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50,000 Canadian postal workers locked out
June 17, 2011The company cited $100 million in losses the strike has caused and the union's refusal to cooperate in dealing with declining mail volumes.
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In South Korea, strike leaders land in court
June 16, 2011180 Vietnamese migrant workers building a wharf in Inchon, South Korea, launched one brief strike in July, 2010, and another last January.
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Book spotlights Cuban victims of U.S.-sponsored terror
June 14, 2011This is a shocking book. Keith Bolender's "Voices from the Other Side" offers testimony from Cuban victims of U. S. terror.
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