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Martelly, friend of Duvalier, named winner in Haiti vote

April 6, 2011 By Emile Schepers

In spite of possible fraud Haiti's Provisional Elections Council recently announced Michel Martelly has apparently won the runoff elections by a landslide over former First Lady Mirlande Manigat.

Mexico: Anti-union labor law “reform” pushed by the right

April 6, 2011 By Emile Schepers

The two right-wing parties in the Mexican congress have come together to promote a labor law "reform" that unions see as an effort to crush organized labor.

Paramilitaries alive and well in Colombia

April 5, 2011 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Paramilitary forces have displaced over four million rural people from 16 million acres of land.

Iraqis wage grassroots fight for democracy

April 5, 2011 By Susan Webb

Eight years after the U.S. invaded Iraq, the Iraqi people are building a grassroots movement for democracy and an economy that works for them.

Carter calls for Cuban 5 release, end to blockade

April 1, 2011 By Dan Margolis

Jimmy Carter, during a three-day visit to Cuba this week, called for a release of the Cuban Five and an end to the long-standing U.S. blockade against the island nation.