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Conservative wins Peruvian election
June 9, 2006Former Peruvian President Alan Garcia, whose 1985-90 term left his country in economic ruin, won a runoff election against left-of-center former army officer Ollanta Humala, preliminary results showed June 6. Garcia held a seemingly insurmountable lead...
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Cuba, Venezuela bring medical care to Bolivia
June 9, 2006In early February, a week after Evo Morales was sworn in as Bolivia’s president, Cuban doctors arrived in the country to care for survivors of devastating floods. Seven hundred Cuban medical professionals are still there. They’ve...
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EU negotiator presents new proposals to Iran
June 9, 2006Moving to break the stalemate over Iran’s nuclear program, European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana met in Tehran June 6 with top Iranian officials to present new proposals agreed on last week by the U.S.,...
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WHATS REALLY GOOD: A different kind of road trip
June 9, 2006The moment Chicago members of the Young Communist League picked me up to go to the YCL’s national convention in Brooklyn, I could tell this was going to be a different experience for me. A meal...
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Massachusetts gubernatorial race heats up
June 9, 2006WORCESTER, Mass. — Massachusetts may be well on its way to getting its first African American governor after the state Democratic Party convention endorsed Deval Patrick, with 58 percent of the delegates’ votes, on June 3....
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