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COSTA RICA: Centre-left presidential candidate Carlos Alvarado Quesada from the Citizen Action Party declared victory yesterday with more than 60 per cent of the vote.
He defeated right-wing journalist and evangelical preacher Fabricio Alvarado Munoz from the National Restoration Party who lost an early poll lead after saddling his campaign with hostility to equal marriage legislation.
Vice-president-elect Epsy Campbell Barr, whose paternal grandmother migrated to Costa Rica from Jamaica, is the first woman of African descent elected to such high office in Latin America.
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
The global left must be unwavering in it is support for Venezuela as Washington increases its aggression, and clear-eyed about the West’s cynical motives for targeting it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
The corporate media have been quick to point the finger over the murder of a Nicaraguan opposition figure, but where is the actual evidence, ask KELLY NELSON and ROGER D HARRIS