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A preliminary round of nominations from A.N.C. branch parties gave Zuma, the party's deputy president, a crushing lead over the incumbent, Thabo Mbeki, who is currently President of both the party and the country. An Ipsos Markinor Socio-Political Trends survey of 3,500 people taken in November and...
The greatest buying opportunity comes on Dec. 18, when Sotheby's auctions off what it calls "the birth certificate of freedom": the Magna Carta (above), one of 17 originals that still exist and the only one in private hands. Signed by England's King John at Runnymede in 1215 to...
According to many commentators on Latin American politics, the failure of last week’s referendum on proposed amendments to the Venezuelan constitution represents a welcome reprieve from the country’s (leftward) drift away from democracy. In a December 8th editorial provocatively entitled “Authoritarians...
Lebanon has been without a President since November 23, when Emile Lahoud stepped down. General Michel Suleiman, the commander of the Lebanese army, has been selected as a consensus candidate agreeable to the anti-Syrian March 14 parliamentary majority as well as the pro-Syrian opposition. But his election has...
A tailor-made constitution allowed him to run again in 1995 and, given the defeat of inflation and terrorism, he easily scored the most lopsided victory in the country's modern history. He ran for a third term in 2000 and won, but the elections were largely seen as fraudulent...