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The legislation was sponsored by the Slovak National Party, an ultra-nationalist outfit whose controversial leader, Jan Slota, is known for his xenophobic slurs, which are often aimed at the country's ethnic Hungarians. But Slota maintains that he doesn't just want to instill more patriotism among the Hungarian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patriotism by Decree in Slovakia | 3/18/2010 | See Source »

If only it were that easy. In the country's most populous department, which includes Port-au-Prince, almost half the voting booths were destroyed or lost in the quake - which also killed the head of the U.N. team that oversees the logistical, technical and security facets of Haiti's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti's Next Big Crisis: How to Hold Elections | 3/18/2010 | See Source »

Some Haitians say they were jaded on elections in the best of times - and certainly aren't in the mood to go through the exercise during a period of catastrophe. "Elections have done nothing for me," says Jean Bernard Thomas, 45, who has been voting since Haiti's first democratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti's Next Big Crisis: How to Hold Elections | 3/18/2010 | See Source »

That still doesn't solve the issue of who will replace Préval, who insists that he won't serve beyond next February. And some Haiti watchers worry that the "interfacing" Williams mentions is just another way of saying international NGOs would keep running things in the country, as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti's Next Big Crisis: How to Hold Elections | 3/18/2010 | See Source »

In the Taiwan case, according to the U.S. indictment, Portillo took three checks in 2000 from the Taiwanese government that were earmarked for Guatemala's Libraries for Peace program and deposited them in an account at Hamilton Bank in Miami that was held by a political supporter and friend. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ex-Guatemala President to Be Tried in U.S. | 3/18/2010 | See Source »

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