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By Danilo Valladares
GUATEMALA CITY, Feb 8, 2011 (IPS) – “He would punch my head all the time, pull my hair, smack and kick me. And he would make me wear long sleeves to hide the bruises; even on my wedding day I had a black and blue mark on my arm,” Heidi Velásquez told IPS in Guatemala.….
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Q&A: Hunger, Food Shortages Fuel Uprisings – IPS ipsnews.net
The rise in food prices and growing hunger, one of the causes of the popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and other countries in the Arab world, is due to financial speculation and not a lack of arable land, says Janaina Stronzake, a leader of Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST).
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