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  • Mexicos Fox blinks in face-off with mayor

    Mexicos Fox blinks in face-off with mayor

    May 6, 2005

    News Analysis Right also defeated at OAS The Bush administration and its right-wing allies in Latin America are not doing so well. People’s forces in Mexico and continent-wide scored important victories last week. In Mexico, the...

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  • Haitis Aristide calls for restoring democracy

    Haitis Aristide calls for restoring democracy

    May 6, 2005

    Deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has called for the restoration of democracy in Haiti. Speaking from exile in Pretoria, South Africa, Aristide challenged the legitimacy of elections slated for November and December in his home country. “In...

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  • For Venezuela, what follows war of words?

    For Venezuela, what follows war of words?

    May 6, 2005

    Venezuela is fighting back against a propaganda onslaught from the U.S. media that, some observers say, is a harbinger of impending military aggression. The temperature is rising. Four hundred Venezuelan journalists issued a statement March 8...

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  • China, Taiwan move toward better relations

    China, Taiwan move toward better relations

    May 6, 2005

    In a surprise move, Taiwan’s President Chen Shui-bian May 2 proposed setting up “a military and security consultation mechanism as soon as possible” with China, to improve communications between military and security forces and cut the...

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  • Black trade unionists gear up for convention

    Black trade unionists gear up for convention

    May 6, 2005

    When hundreds of Black trade unionists converge on Phoenix for the 34th International Convention of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists May 25-30, the many-sided attacks on the Black community and on labor will be the...

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