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‘Baby Doc’ arrested in Haiti

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.

Noriega Reminds Panama of Dark Past

Part II in a two-part series on the extradition of General Manuel Noriega   PANAMA CITY – Like a country boy who moves to the...

Noriega Fights Extradition to France

  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....

Abortion Ban Blamed for Maternal Deaths

MANAGUA – Women and girls are dying in Nicaragua because of a law that puts a fetus’ right to life above that of the...

Costa Rica priests to forgive abortion

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...

New Challenge Issued To Abortion Ban

The Strategic Group for the Depenalization of Therapeutic Abortion last week filed the first in a new series of motions of unconstitutionality before the...

‘Marianita’ Case Revives Abortion Debate

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

Activists Mobilize Against Abortion Ban

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...

Activists Hope Court Reverses Abortion Ban

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...

U.S. Activists Protest Guantanamo Prison Camp in Cuba

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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