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(04/29/10) -

A long way to go to achieve gender equality

In real life, men and women realize that the wage disparities affect them both.
Gabriela Perdomo – Earlier this month, supporters of gender equality in the United States marked Equal Pay Day. Women currently make up half of America’s work force, but take home 77 cents for every dollar collected by men. Therefore, Apr. 20 is the day when women in the U.S. finally catch up to men in yearly earnings—almost four months into the next calendar year.

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(02/16/10) -

Hungary in the Hands of Fidesz

This years election is likely to see the opposition take power in Hungary. It will have to live up to very high expectations.
Gabriela Perdomo – Soon after electing the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) into power in 2006, Hungarians heard how Socialist leader and prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsany had lied about the state of the national economy to secure his permanence in power. The revelations caused a popular upheaval that almost toppled the government, but not quite. Since then, Hungarians have been waiting for their chance to get even.

zapateu
(01/08/10) -

Spain at the Helm of the European Union

Another country dealing with economic disaster takes over the EU presidency.
Gabriela Perdomo – With new rules commanding the leadership structure of the European Union (EU), the need for six-month rotating presidencies was supposed to have ended. Yet, on Jan. 1, Spain became the latest country to preside over the 27-member bloc, even as a new EU president, the Belgian Herman van Rompuy, and a new foreign policy chief, Britain’s Catherine Ashton, assumed their roles last Dec. 1 as part of the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty.

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(11/28/09) -

Despotic Evo Tarnishes Bolivian Campaign

By refusing to take part in a debate, the Bolivian president has behaved like the “oppressors” he once despised.
Mario Canseco – The outcome of next month’s presidential election in Bolivia appears certain. Every voting intention poll released in the past four weeks places incumbent Evo Morales with the support of more than 50 per cent of respondents, and that is before factoring out the undecided. It would appear that the candidate from the Movement to Socialism (MAS) will actually be closer to the 60 per cent mark, effectively earning a five-year term in office.

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(11/07/09) -

Venezuela: Where did the dream go?

Opinion polls show that Venezuelans are growing tired of Chavismo.
Gabriela Perdomo – You can still find people who defend the achievements of Hugo Chávez’s 10 years in office as Venezuela’s head of state. Literacy, education, food subsidies for the poor and access to health services, they say, are areas in which the Chávez administration has visibly improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. But those who still see a champion in the president are dwindling in number as well as in enthusiasm.

sarkozy_unun
(10/21/09) -

Sarkozy’s Fading Political Mandate

The French president reaches the halfway point, with a petite list of accomplishments.
Gabriela Perdomo – Nicolas Sarkozy has fallen prey to the 50 per cent curse. With one notable exception, the French president’s popularity has remained in the lower half throughout 2009. With two and a half years to go in his term, and the bulk of his proposals yet to be discussed in the legislature, Sarkozy faces a tough road ahead.

czech_artcc
(10/02/09) -

The Czech Year of Adjustments

An unstable European country will stay that way until an election is held next spring.
Gabriela Perdomo – Perhaps the best way to describe the Czech Republic’s political scene this past year is a pendulum. Back and forth, political parties and voters have constantly moved without finding a stable centre, and so the year has gone by with much movement but little to show for it.

unasur
(08/30/09) -

Winds of Change in the Progressive South

Brace for tight elections in Chile and Uruguay
Gabriela Perdomo – Both located in what is known as the South Cone, Chile and Uruguay are two of the most stable democracies in South America. The two have emerged from a dark period of military dictatorships and oppressive regimes to become prosperous nations with strong democratic institutions and credentials.

yhcmhc
(08/13/09) -

My Health Care, Your Health Care

Health care reform in the United States brings Canada into the discussion.
Gabriela Perdomo – As American congressmen and women grapple with a mandate to reform the country’s problematic health care system, the public is being bombarded with information, true and false, about what they can expect from such changes.

afghan_chopper
(08/07/09) -

Global Citizens More Cautious About Afghan War

Public opinion is drifting away from the conflict formerly known as the œglobal war on terrorism.
Gabriela Perdomo – While the Obama administration has been steadfast in its decision to ban the term "war on terror", there is no such thing as a global sentiment regarding the military operations in Afghanistan. As its eight anniversary approaches, the multinational effort is becoming harder to understand and easier to reject in the countries that supply the soldiers for it.

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