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AFP/File – An undated and unlocated picture of General Francisco Franco. The town council in the birthplace of Franco … MADRID (AFP) – The town council in the birthplace of General Francisco Franco has voted to withdraw all the...
A chronology of key events: 16-17th centuries - The area of present-day Belize becomes part of Spain's possessions in Central America and the Caribbean; British buccaneers and woodcutters begin to settle around the Belize...
A chronology of key events: 1493 - Christopher Columbus visits Antigua and names it after the Church of Santa Maria de la Antigua in Seville, Spain. Vere Bird forms the Antigua Labour Party (ALP). George Walter replaces Vere...
JURIST] The Uruguayan Senate [official website, in Spanish] passed a bill [press release, in Spanish] Tuesday that partially decriminalizes abortion [JURIST news archive], but it is unlikely the bill has the support needed to...
A chronology of key events: 1498 - Eric Williams, a moderate nationalist, founds the People's National Movement (PNM). Trinidad and Tobago leaves the West Indies Federation; becomes independent with Williams as prime minister....
A chronology of key events: 1523-24 - More than 200,000 were killed, or disappeared, in civil war 1996: Rebels, government sign peace deal 2001: Guatemalan Maya bury their war dead 1823 - Juan Jose Arevalo becomes president...
