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| Peru
Elections in Peru ,
The first round of the Peruvian presidential elections on Sunday April 8, 2001 produced a major surprise - Wall Street’s favoured candidate, Lourdes Flores, came third and was eliminated from the contest. The second round [on June 3] will now be contested between Alexander Toledo (who scored 36.46%) and Alán GarcÃa, the candidate of the APRA party, who was president from 1985 to 1990, who secured 26% of the vote. -> read article... |
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| World Social Forum
Social Movements call for mobilisationSocial forces from around the world have gathered here at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre. Unions and NGOs, movements and organizations, intellectuals and artists, together we are building a great alliance to create a new society, different from the dominant logic wherein the free-market and money are considered the only measure of worth. -> read article... |
| China
Odyssey 2001In the balance sheets that marked the beginning of the New Year, the People’s Republic of China occupied a special place. In Washington, representatives of the establishment seem convinced that the major competition on the international scale in the coming decades will be between the US and China. -> read article... |
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