The widespread dissatisfaction with conservative politicians in indigenous and farming communities swept Ollanta Humala – a left-leaning nationalist - to the presidency in July. Now his supporters are waiting for Humala to begin the promised social revolution, but in many parts of the country, patience is wearing thin.
"Nou dwe sèl mèt bout tè sa a/We should be the only owners of this land." - This was Haitian protesters’ message at a demonstration last month against the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti, known by its French acronym, MINUSTAH.
On beautiful Jeju Island, south of the Korean peninsula, the South Korean Navy is building a base with US support that will soon harbor some of the world’s most advanced weapons.
Laos, a small landlocked country in Southeast Asia known as “the most bombed country on earth,” fittingly hosted an international disarmament conference in November 2010.
Over the last two decades or more, Republicans have been denouncing as “class warfare” any attempt at criticizing and restraining their mean one-sided system of capitalist financial expropriation.
With its lax environmental laws, Burma has become a battleground for neighboring countries keen to get their hands on the country’s abundant natural resources.
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