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‘Baby Doc’ arrested in Haiti

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Jean-Claude Duvalier, the 59-year-old former dictator, assumed power at 19 from his notorious father, Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier. Baby Doc ruled Haiti from 1971 to 1986.
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How Panama Moved from Noriega’s Dictatorship to Economic Growth

Alberto Font -
PANAMA CITY – Like a country boy who moves to the city to take a suit-and-tie job, Panama is trying hard to overcome its...
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Noriega Fights Extradition to France

Alberto Font -
  Part I of a two-part series on   the Extradition of General Manuel Noriega       PANAMA CITY – Gen. Manuel Noriega's defense lawyers criticized the U.S....
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Abortion Ban Blamed for Maternal Deaths

L. Arias -
MANAGUA – Women and girls are dying in Nicaragua because of a law that puts a fetus’ right to life above that of the...
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Costa Rica priests to forgive abortion

L. Arias -
Starting next week, it will be easier for women who have had abortions to seek forgiveness from the Catholic Church. From Feb. 25 to April...
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New Challenge Issued To Abortion Ban

L. Arias -
The Strategic Group for the Depenalization of Therapeutic Abortion last week filed the first in a new series of motions of unconstitutionality before the...
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‘Marianita’ Case Revives Abortion Debate

L. Arias -
MANAGUA – The shocking case of a pre-adolescent rape victim having to undergo an “illegal therapeutic abortion” last week has revived the debate on...
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Activists Mobilize Against Abortion Ban

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MANAGUA – As nervous police officers looked on, dozens of abortion-rights activists shut down the entrance to the nation’s Supreme Court last Friday in...
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Activists Hope Court Reverses Abortion Ban

L. Arias -
Dear Nica Times: On Monday, Jan. 8, a total of 67 signatories presented to the Supreme Court of Justice the first lawsuit against the recently...
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U.S. Activists Protest Guantanamo Prison Camp in Cuba

Alberto Font -
HAVANA – Five U.S. pacifists, among them anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, traveled to the Cuban capital this week to demand the closure of the...
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