WNU #949: Lula Visits Haiti, Protests Banned

Weekly News Update on the Americas
Issue #949, June 1, 2008

1. Haiti: Lula Visits, Protests Banned
2. Colombia: Paras' Laptops Go Missing
3. Chile: Colombo Suspects to Be Tried
4. Links to alternative sources on: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Haiti

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*1. Haiti: Lula Visits, Protests Banned
Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made a brief official visit to Haiti to May 28. During the few hours before he headed off for a tour of Central America, Lula had a private conversation with Haitian president René Garcia Préval, took part in a signing ceremony for six agreements (including accords on agriculture, education and women's rights), and visited the headquarters of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), a 9,000-member military force headed by Brazil.

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