Colombia: Jorge Gaitan and the struggle for peace
Peace negotiators of FARC, who've been meeting in Cuba with Colombian government representatives, called for investigating origins of conflict in Colombia.
Open letter urges Congress to get all the facts on Venezuela
Celebrities, activists, academics and lawyers issued an open letter, Mar. 28, to Congress urging members to oppose any sanctions on Venezuela and to get all the facts on the situation there.
U.S. secretly built "Cuban Twitter" to stir unrest
The U.S. built a communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba, built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks.
Unions, small farmers mobilize in Paraguay under U.S. eye
Paraguayan labor federations and small farmer organizations launched a general strike on March 26. Some 90 percent of workers in Asuncion honored the strike.
French municipal elections: Voters stay home, socialists trounced, right surges
The right wing Union for a Popular Movement declared victory and the far right National Front surged.
Philippine government signs historic peace deal
The deal grants largely Muslim areas of the southern Mindanao region greater political autonomy in exchange for an end to armed rebellion.
