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Diary of a Venezuelan Presidential Election
Source: Red Pepper [Chesa Boudin, author of The Venezuelan Revolution: 100 Questions-100 Answers, gives a first-hand account of Election Day in Caracas. –Ed] Loud fireworks woke me, and much of Caracas, up at 2.30am on […]
Mexico: APPO supporters endure torture
Source: The Herald Mexico Rene Trujillo Martínez, a thin 25-year-old lawyer and volunteer radio announcer with the Oaxaca People´s Assembly (APPO), holds the uncomfortable distinction of having survived a disappearance. Trujillo was recently abducted from […]
Future Uncertain in Venezuela as Presidential Election Looms
With just five days left before the Venezuelan presidential elections the capital city of Caracas seems to be holding its breath. People carry on with their daily lives but with a large degree of uncertainty […]
Ecuadorians Vote for Systemic Change
Ecuadorians went to the polls on Oct. 15 to vote in the first round of the presidential elections. The results were surprising, if not suspicious, when the supreme electoral tribunal declared Alvaro Noboa, a banana […]