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POLITICS: U.S. Seeks to Limit Warlords in Karzai Cabinet

By Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON - The Barack Obama administration is talking tough to Afghan President Hamid Karzai about the need for decisive action on corruption and governance reform, but its main objective is to prevent particularly corrupt and incompetent warlords from getting plum ministries as rewards for helping clinch his fraudulent reelection, IPS has learned.
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RIGHTS-MEXICO: Military Abuses Brought to Inter-American Commission
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - A case of rights abuses allegedly committed by the Mexican armed forces is coming up for a hearing at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), where it joins a long list of accusations against the army in this Latin American country.
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GUATEMALA: Controversy Dogs New Highway
By Danilo Valladares
GUATEMALA CITY - Construction is expected to begin soon on a new highway across north-central Guatemala, the largest infrastructure project tackled so far by the government of Álvaro Colom.
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ZIMBABWE: Watchdog Groups Urge Ban on Diamond Exports
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON - The past week brought new scrutiny of Zimbabwe's human rights record with the deportation of a senior U.N. official sent to investigate torture there, and demands by a coalition of civil society groups that the international community address human rights violations stemming from Zimbabwe's lucrative diamond industry.
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PHILIPPINES: ‘Running After President Arroyo Is Only Just’
Stephen de Tarczynski interviews ALBERTO LIM, executive director of the Philippines’s premier business organisation
MANILA - Philippine political affairs are rarely straightforward. The former Spanish and U.S. colony, which also endured occupation under Japan during the Second World War, has experienced major upheavals since independence was finally achieved—and recognised, this time—in 1946.
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BRAZIL: Drugs, Guns, Gangs and Police – a Violent Mix in the 'Favelas'
By Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO - Janaína*, who lives in Jacarezinho, one of the most violent "favelas" or shantytowns in this Brazilian city, describes the control that the "movement" – the local drug mafia – exercises over the neighbourhood and local residents.
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GUATEMALA: Despite Flaws, Judge Selection Process Improved, Say NGOs
By Danilo Valladares
GUATEMALA CITY - A new process aimed at making the selection of judges more transparent in Guatemala failed to block the appointment of several candidates who were questioned by civil society and a U.N.-sponsored commission set up to strengthen and purge the country's justice system.
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MEXICO: Int'l Tribunal 'Scandalised' by Denials of Workers' Rights
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - On the day his trade union section held elections for officials, "our offices were occupied, damaged and ransacked" by thugs from the executive committee of the National Teachers Union (SNTE), said Mexican teacher Gerardo Cruz, a leader in the CNTE, a dissident caucus seeking reform within the union.
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PHILIPPINES: Amid Disasters’ Rubble, Accusations Hound President
Analysis by Stephen de Tarczynski
MANILA - Even in the wake of the tropical storms that lashed the northern parts of the Philippines recently, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo took time out to visit her home province.
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ECONOMY-AFRICA: Pros and Cons to Huge Chinese Investment in DRC
By Stephanie Nieuwoudt
CAPE TOWN - Concerns abound about a nine billion dollar Chinese investment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, especially around environmental consequences and transparency. And, on the Chinese side, investors complain not only about the lack of security in the DRC but about their own government not providing enough support.
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AFGHANISTAN: The Cheap Way to Hell
By Lal Aqa Sherin*
KABUL - For the last three weeks, 30-year-old Ghulam Nabi has lain in a Kabul hospital bed, suffering. His face is etched with hopelessness, loneliness and despair over the life he once had and has now lost forever.
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CENTRAL AMERICA: The World's Most Violent Region
By José Adán Silva
MANAGUA - Although the UNDP's Report on Human Development in Central America 2009-2010 says the region has the highest rates of non-political crime in the world, there are nevertheless plenty of opportunities to improve public security, analysts and experts say.
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ZAMBIA: Holding Government Responsible for Spending
By Kelvin Kachingwe
LUSAKA - The recent change of the budget cycle to allow government to effectively spend money to develop the country is not good enough unless those in charge of the money are made accountable, say civil society.
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Corruption depletes national wealth and undercuts legitimacy. Transparency International says corruption is often to blame for already limited public resources being diverted to uneconomic high-profile projects, at the expense of less spectacular but more necessary development initiatives. Civil society is finding its voice to demand that those behind corrupt acts are held accountable.