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Brazil: Workers’ Party names candidate to succeed Lula

March 22, 2010 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

At its national congress in February, the Workers' Party acclaimed President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's endorsement of Dilma Rousseff as the Party's presidential candidate for elections in October.

World Notes: Brazil, Cuba, Guadaloupe, Spain, Sudan, Thailand, Yemen

January 12, 2010 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

This week in World Notes: Brazil passes landmark climate legislation; Cuba rejects U.S. terror designation; Guadaloupe prepares for general strike; Spain's unemployment is highest in Europe; Sudan exports food, while country starves; Thailand's army deport Laotian...

World Notes: Brazil, Yemen, India, Canada, Uganda, Cuba

November 15, 2009 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

Cuba: Retamar honors Marti Poet Roberto Fernández Retamar inaugurated the 7th International conference on Marti Studies. The writer and Casa de las Americas president praised Jose Marti's contribution to Latin American unity and his inspiration of...

World Social Forum: presidents for feminist socialism

February 2, 2009 By Mario Osava

BELÉM, Brazil, Jan 30 (IPS) - 'True socialism is feminist,' and is already being built, said Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, standing next to three other South American presidents, all of them men, at a dialogue that...