French president Nicholas Sarkozy met in Paris with elected officials from Guadeloupe after the general strike in the French overseas department turned violent, with one union leader shot dead at a roadblock.
Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council barred Lavalas candidates from the upcoming senate race, insisting it needs official confirmation from the party’s leader, exiled ex-president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
A US federal judge placed 30,299 Haitians under final deportation orders, lifting a suspension of deportations instated in September, after four tropical storms ravaged Haiti in one month.
The Collective Against Extreme Exploitation (LKP) in Guadeloupe broke off negotiations to end the general strike that has paralyzed the island after the French government refused to meet their demands.
Protests continue in Haiti over the barring of the leftist Lavalas Party from upcoming senatorial elections, while Swiss authorities say they will return assets of former “president for life” Jean-Claude Duvalier.
A general strike that has paralyzed the island of Guadeloupe since Jan. 20 shows sings of spreading to other French holdings in the region following a one-day multi-sector walk-out in Martinique.
Hundreds of supporters of Haiti’s Lavalas Family demonstrated in Port-au-Prince to protest the barring of all 16 candidates from the party’s rival factions from running in April’s senate race.
Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva appealed to Obama to lift the Cuba embargo, while Cuba’s Fidel Castro said “despite [Obama’s] noble intentions,” fundamental contradictions remain in the capitalist system.
On Jan. 21 Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Castro met with former Cuban president Fidel Castro Ruz during a brief visit to Havana. In a column published the same day, Castro said his discussion with Fernández was “intense and interesting,… Read moreCuba: Fidel Castro reappears
Nine Dominican police agents should be tried for the Dec. 30 shooting deaths of five members of the country’s transport workers, a judicial report has found.
Barack Obama will eliminate some sanctions against Cuba but “it is not time to lift” the 47-year-old US economic embargo, Hillary Clinton told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
On Dec. 19 US Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff wrote Haitian president René Préval that “[a]fter very careful consideration” he was rejecting the Haitian government’s request for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for undocumented Haitians in the US. This would have… Read moreHomeland Security rejects “temporary protected status” for Haitians
