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...Lugo and most Paraguayans wanted to observe the first anniversary of his historic election. Lugo, 57, is Paraguay's Barack Obama, the outsider agent of change who pledged to lead the South American nation out of its benighted past. The leftist former priest, who had worked among Paraguay's poorest as a bishop, toppled the seemingly omnipotent Colorado Party, the political base of the country's 19th and 20th century dictators like General Alfredo Stroessner. Lugo has since pushed for essential measures like land reform. What Paraguay is getting instead, at least for the moment, is "a telenovela," says respected...
...Moldova Election Triggers Protests Allegations of vote-rigging in the Communist Party's April 5 parliamentary election victory spurred more than 10,000 people to mass in Chisinau, the capital of Europe's poorest country. Coordinating via Twitter and text messages, protesters stormed government buildings and clashed with police. Nearly 200 were arrested. President Vladimir Voronin accused Romania of conspiring to foment unrest--a charge Bucharest denied...
...because we have not known what needs to be done,” he added. “Africa has no good reason to be the poorest of continents in this world...
...problem extends beyond the fate of individual workers. Migrants regularly send large chunks of their paychecks back home to support their families, providing much-needed capital to some of the world's poorest countries. The World Bank announced yesterday that these remittances to developing countries would likely shrink this year by 8%, after rising 9% in 2008 and 16% in 2007. Nieves Miguelita M. Yabao, from Demaguete City in the Philippines, came to the gambling mecca of Macau during that city's recent construction boom. But when she arrived, she discovered the job she had been promised working...
...Harvard has done more than merely take its cue from private industry. It has taken the lead in developing a new conceptual framework. It has spearheaded the implementation of innovative practices and agreements that serve the public interest and aims to ensure that even the world’s poorest and most disadvantaged will receive a tangible benefit from new inventions and discoveries arising from Harvard’s research enterprise—a fact of which I am, and the greater Harvard community should be, justifiably proud...