World – Page 713 – People's World

Colombian peace talks in serious jeopardy

May 13, 2014 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

After reaching partial agreements on agrarian reform and political participation, negotiators tackled drug trafficking. But after five months of discussion, they recessed without an agreement.

South Africa 2014 elections: ANC triumphs, opposition gains ground

May 9, 2014 By Mark Waller

A new R1-trillion [$96 billion] economic and social infrastructure program aims to transform many poor areas by building new roads, rail links, ports, universities and schools.

#Bring our girls home

May 9, 2014 By Emile Schepers

A wave of revulsion has spread worldwide over the news of the kidnapping of young girls from a school at Chibok, in Borno State in Northwestern Nigeria by the violent Boko Haram sect.

Demand investigation of murder of progressive Cuban-American in 1978

May 8, 2014 By Emile Schepers

Demands are being raised for a government investigation of the murder of a progressive young Cuban immigrant in Puerto Rico on April 28, 1979.

U.S. Office of Cuba Broadcasting pays foreign journalists to defame Cuba

May 8, 2014 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

The U.S. OCB paid almost $700,000 to journalists and other opinion molders in Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America in return for their dissemination of anti-Cuban propaganda.