Spanish Elections

Timeline: Eta campaign

Car bombing has been a favourite tactic of the group The BBC News website traces Eta's four-decade campaign for a sovereign Basque state, which has cost more than 800 lives. • 17 November, 2008: Eta's suspected military chief,...

Uruguay senate votes to decriminalize some abortions but veto expected

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...

Timeline: Trinidad and Tobago

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....

Timeline: Guatemala

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...

U.S. presidential election results draw crowds in Spain

Nikki Pasrija is an SMU junior currently studying abroad in Spain. By 11 p.m. on Nov. 4, the metro in Madrid was exceptionally crowded. Large groups of Spaniards and American citizens abroad were chattering loudly, convening in...

UNI-Americas Info Bulletin for October 2008

Labour news from UNI global union - for trade unions in a global services economy. - Contact: uni-americas@uniglobalunion.org PERU : NEW MANAGEMENT BOARD AT QUEBECOR’S TRADE UNION Marvin Largaespada, Regional Director of...

Hovik Abrahamyan Receives Congratulations

HOVIK ABRAHAMYAN RECEIVES CONGRATULATIONS armradio.am 07.11.2008 16:16 President of the National assembly of Armenia Hovik Abrahamyan received congratulations from his Italian, Spanish and Swiss counterparts on the occasion of...

Change, but not for better

WHEN Barack Obama began to campaign for the Democratic nomination, his main claim to fame was his extreme, left-liberal voting record in the US Senate. Since defeating Hillary Clinton in the primaries, he predictably gravitated...

Spain's morning after

After three decades of partying, Spain has woken up with a hangover. Curing it will require changes, writes Michael Reid (interviewed here)THE past few months have been bittersweet for Spain. In a general election in March the...

State ordered to be ready sooner with paper ballots

PHILADELPHIA -- Pennsylvania election officials will make paper ballots available to voters if half the machines at a polling place break down, they said, declining to appeal a federal judge's emergency order yesterday

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