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The Caribbean

Haiti: two klled in protest, electoral clash

Two have been killed n Haiti in ongoing street clashes over President RenĂ© PrĂ©val’s failure to pass a new minimum wage law and contested senate elections.

The Caribbean

US Supreme Court turns down Cuban Five case

The Supreme Court declined to review the case of the “Cuban Five,” despite appeals by GĂŒnter Grass, Rigoberta MenchĂș and eight other Nobel Prize winners.

The Caribbean

Haiti: students protest for minimum wage

Students have repeatedly clashed with security forces in Haiti this month in protests over the failure of President René Préval to raise the minimum wage.

The Caribbean

Puerto Rico: thousands protest layoffs

In one of the largest demonstrations in recent Puerto Rican history, tens of thousands marched to protest plans by Gov. Luis Fortuño to lay off government workers and privatize public services.

The Caribbean

Curaçao: Hezbollah connection in narco bust?

Seventeen people were arrested on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao for involvement in a drug-trafficking ring with connections to Hezbollah, the police there said.

The Caribbean

Haiti: violence, abstention mar election

Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council suspended voting for senators in the Central Plateau department after violence disrupted the process there in at least three cities.

The Caribbean

Latin leftists bash Obama at Caribbean confab

At the Trinidad summit, Evo Morales accused the US of a “policy of conspiracy” against Bolivia, while Nicaragua’s Danial Ortega reiterated more than a century of imperialist outrages.