1. CEPR Paper on Ecuador’s Financial Reforms Helps Explain Why Voters Likely to Re-Elect Correa
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On Sunday Ecuadorians will head to the polls to vote for a president and vice president, members of the National Assembly, mayors, and other elected officials. As we’ve done ahead of other elections in ...

2. Sunday’s Election Indicates Power Shift is Unlikely in Venezuela
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The overwhelming victory of Chávez’s party, the PSUV, in yesterday’s elections for state governors is another indication that the widespread prognostications of gloom and doom ahead for both chavismo and ...

3. "Brazil, MINUSTAH, Need a Timetable for Withdrawal" - Mark Weisbrot in Folha de Sao Paulo
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...  Haiti’s president, Préval, understandably refused to do this, the U.S. government turned against him. As a result, Washington reversed the results of Haiti’s first round presidential election in ...

4. 18 Percent of Tally Sheets Excluded, According to Haitian Media
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"[T]he second round of the presidential and legislative elections was quite an improvement in many ways on the first round," according to the joint OAS-CARICOM observation mission. Yet reports are now ...

5. Is MINUSTAH’s Time Almost Up?
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From the website of a State Representative for the (ruling) Workers’ Party in Brazil, a flier promotes a rally for “the withdrawal of troops from Haiti”. The March 28 event will feature speakers from, ...

6. CEP Bans Fanmi Lavalas from Upcoming Elections, International Community Gives Green Light
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... elections, in which all 99 seats in the House of Deputies and one third of the 30 member Senate are up for election. EFE reports that while registration for the presidential elections will take place ...