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The left-wing Lavalas Family (FL) dominated the long-delayed legislative and local elections held in Haiti on May 21. According to partial results so far announced, it won 14 of the 19 Senate seats up for election and made a strong showing in the

ATLANTA — The trial of Immigration and Naturalization Service official Mariano Faget has been under way for more than a week in Miami, and everything that has come out in court confirms that the case is a politically motivated frame-up. Cuban-born

FIJI: West threatens split The claim by the terrorists who have kidnapped Fiji's prime minister and government that their actions are supported by most "indigenous" Melanesian Fijians has been dealt blow by the announcement that Melanesian Fijians

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is not used to losing. The wily septuagenarian is using every trick in the book to make sure that the popular trade union-backed opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), does not win a majority at

UNITED STATES: Elian's return home a step closer UNITED STATES: Elian's return home one step closer A ruling by a US appeals court on June 1 may mean that kidnapped six-year-old Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez, forced to remain in the Unites States, may

UNITED STATES: Appeal from a militant unionist CALIFORNIA — John Reimann was a member of the Carpenters Union for almost 30 years. He has just been expelled for life from his union. Reimann served as recording secretary for Local 713 of his union

Sri Lanka: Government crackdown meets opposition Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga's attempts to stifle public opposition to the war against the Tamils in the north and to social and economic policies in the south have met

SOUTH AFRICA: ANC blocks treatment for HIV patients EAST LONDON, Eastern Cape province — If anyone had any doubt that the era of settlerism and elitism was not over in South Africa, President Thabo Mbeki's antics around the issue of HIV/AIDS

Developments in International Socialists' debate list The last issue of Green Left Weekly reported on a factional debate within the International Socialist Tendency and the establishment of an email list to distribute information and discuss the

West Papua: Strong Support for independence A congress on May 29-June 4 in Jayapura city, West Papua, has called for steps to forge an independent West Papua. The Morning Star flag, banned symbol of West Papuan independence, was flying every

The overthrow of the Fiji Labour Party-led government "is not a struggle between indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians" BRIJ LAL, a professor of history at the Australian National University and a director of the ANU's Centre for the Contemporary

Pinochet loses immunity In an extraordinary session of Chile's Court of Appeals on May 23, the court voted 13 to nine to strip former dictator General Augusto Pinochet of the immunity he enjoys as a senator. The ruling will allow Juan Guzman, the