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Disaster prompts president to lift moratorium on death penalty, a move human rights groups say is ‘a retreat into barbarism’
WITH 99 per cent of the votes reported, US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton led leftwinger Bernie Sanders by a nose in the Iowa Democratic caucus yesterday as Ted Cruz beat Republican rival Donald Trump.
Votes in several undeclared voting precincts were still being counted.
The Democratic race was so close in that tellers in six precincts were forced to toss coins to decide the result. Ms Clinton won them all.
ENRIQUE SANTIAGO ROMERO says the Colombian far-right’s election victory is deeply suspect — and the United States has its fingerprints all over it
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA