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TiToto says of President of Guadeloupean Regional Council Victorin Lurel (Fr): “Suffering from “poll-o-philiac opinionmania,” Lurel often attempts a real personalization of public opinion, a creation of a fictitious political and social image which claims to represent the Guadeloupean people. … He says “Guadeloupeans have said x” everytime he seeks to justify one of his demented actions.”
Collectif Haiti de Provence recently posted (Fr) a slideshow of important Haitian personalities and events of 2006.
Tim Muth has an entertaining link to photos of “the biggest pupusa in the world” from Olocuilta, El Salvador.
A breaking news update from Jim Shultz in Cochabamba: “As I write this the Center of Cochabamba has just become a war zone. Crowds of hundreds of, mostly young men, armed with heavy sticks, are in open conflict on the block below our office and throughout the Center of Cochabamba. Flying rocks fill the air. Several have come flying through our windows.”
Stay in Buenos Aires has a primer on the upcoming Buenos Aires Tango Festival.
Orange Ukraine writes on the situation with land and real estate in Kyiv and the rest of the country.
I guess it has to do with humanizing a figure we prefer to see as super-natural. The almost funny thing...
people of maldives..you have to stop this civil war. its sad to see it in this state of affairs....
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I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What these killers have done is...