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...that even now, the general election scheduled for Jan. 8 should go ahead, as an essential first step in the political healing process. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who yesterday called Bhutto a "woman of immense personal courage and bravery," today announced that he had encouraged Pakistan's President Perez Musharraf to push ahead with the elections, as much as an act of defiance against terrorism as one of democracy. "This was a cowardly terrorist act designed to destabilize democratic elections ... I therefore encouraged President Musharraf to stick to the course he has outlined to build democracy and stability...
...Minority voters, critics claim, are disproportionately affected by the law. For example, Hispanics, who often use two last names, make up "only 15% of the applicants, but they are almost 40% of the unmatched" cases, according to attorney Myrna Perez of the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law, who also represents the plaintiffs. Similarly, African Americans make up 13% of the applicants but account for 26% of the cases where the names or driver's license or Social Security numbers on the applications don't match those in the official databases. "Perfectly eligible real people...
Guatemala goes to the polls on Sunday, haunted by a violent and contested past and anxious over an increasingly violent present. The legacy of the country's 36-year-civil war is never far from contemporary politics, and the front-runner in the presidential runoff - retired General Perez Molina, whose right-wing Patriotic Party has a very slight lead over left-leaning businessman Alvaro Colom in some opinion polls - has been the subject of allegations in a new book on the 1998 assassination of Guatemalan human rights crusader Bishop Juan Gerardi. Gerardi was bludgeoned to death in the parish house...
...justice system has left 98 percent of cases unsolved, prompting some citizens to take the law into their own hands. On Thursday, for example, an angry mob in the small town of San Juan Sacatepequez captured and burned alive three teenagers suspected of belonging to a street gang. Perez Molina has built support by promising to put more soldiers on the streets to fight crime, and to use the death penalty more frequently. He also supports temporarily suspending some constitutional rights in crime-ridden areas, a tactic used several times last year by incumbent President Oscar Berger...
...standing there trying to grab somebody to dance with me and then I see a whole commotion,” said Dorchester resident Amigo Perez, 21. “I’m like, ‘Time...