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  1. Mexico's paramilitaries step up attacks

    government to stop its genocidal war in Chiapas. In a separate incident on January 12, a day of international ... By Wendy Patterson Chiapas once again burst on to the front pages of the world's newspapers ... with news of a massacre in the small town of Acteal on December 22. Local members of the ruling ...

  2. Mugabe trapped between the poor and the IMF

    drafted a range of new taxes, including a 5% "war veteran's levy" on all wage earners, ... dissatisfaction of the country's urban poor and the working class on the one hand, and the demands of big ... business and western financial institutions on the other. Attempts by President Robert Mugabe to offer ...

  3. Byron: high-voltage radicalism

    the Continent in 1809. The horrors of the French/Spanish war and the theft of Greece's ... archaeological treasures by Lord Elgin, however, awoke him to the ills of the world. One of the worst ills was on ... used his maiden speech to oppose a bill to make frame-breaking a capital offence and to heap scorn on ...