Hope for the orphans of Haiti lies in adoption abroad, writes Ed Pilkington in Port-au-Prince.
A visit to Havana by a black president ending the US policy of isolation would be as magical as events of 50 years ago.
At a petrol station outside the Cuban town of Cienfuegos, half a dozen teenage girls stand languidly by the pumps, jumping to attention when a car or lorry pulls up. They work the pumps efficiently, take payment and enter the transaction on to a large official form. They are dressed neatly in T-shirts and jeans and a slogan across their backs proclaims their identity as <i>trabajadores sociales</i>, or social workers. They are Fidel Castro’s latest army of guerrillas.
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/ 23 December 2005
The large vote for Evo Morales, the socialist and indigenous candidate in the presidential election in Bolivia, and the expected ratification of his success by the congress, marks a new and fascinating moment in the unrolling of radical politics in Latin America. Morales is a charismatic figure who represents important strands in Bolivia’s political traditions.