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Intimidation, fraud mar El Salvador vote
April 2, 2004SAN SALVADOR – Far from being a victory for democracy, El Salvador’s March 21 presidential election made a mockery of free and democratic elections. Antonio Saca, the U.S.-backed candidate of the National Republican Alliance (ARENA), won...
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An interview with Father Bourgeois: School of Americas wall of secrecy crumbles
April 2, 2004“Hundreds of graduates from the School of the Americas have been involved in the massacre, torture, rape, and disappearance of many thousands of people throughout Latin America,” Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of SOA Watch, recently told...
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U.S. vetoes criticism of Yassins killing
April 2, 2004A resolution at the United Nations condemning the Israeli government’s extrajudicial assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was defeated in the Security Council on March 25 as a result of a U.S. veto, prompting many Palestinians to...
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GOP blocks vote to preserve overtime pay
April 2, 2004WASHINGTON (PAI) – The average worker affected by the Bush administration’s new overtime regulations earns $51,000-$55,000 yearly, including overtime, or around $1,000 a week, according to the Economic Policy Institute. With overtime pay at a little...
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School budget battle looms in New York
April 2, 2004BUFFALO, N.Y. – As the deadline for New York’s 2004-5 budget approaches, education rights activists are demanding the state find money to comply with last year’s ruling that every child be provided with a “meaningful high...
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