PUERTO RICO – Crushing defeat for Roselló
After two months of legal debate, the checking of voting cards, and accusations of fraud, on December 28 the State Elections Commission announced Acevedo Vilá as the winner with 48.4% of the votes. Rosselló received 48.2%.
Bush's America contracts-out torture of its prisoners
The fact the US hands people in its custody over to 'expert countries' in the use of torture is not a real big surprise.
Free the Cuban Five – Venezuela's National Assembly
Five Cuban citizens who fought to stop terrorism are still wrongfully imprisoned in the US. Movement in the US and the world grows to free them.
Deep Discontent in Peru
THE effect of neoliberal policies in Peru, promoted by an economy alien to the real needs of its citizens, has provoked recurrent political and social crises in this nation.
Guantanamo Detainees Still Held Illegally
The Bush administration continues to violate international law by holding the Guantanamo Bay prisoners without rights for indefinite periods of time.