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21.04.2005 Ecuador's new president, Alfredo Palacio, told IPS that he would complete the term of Lucio Gutiérrez, who was removed by Congress Wednesday, even though the protesters demanding that Gutiérrez step down called for early elections in just four months. En:Inter Press Service

19.04.2005 The International Fact-finding and Solidarity Mission to Haiti, headed by Argentine Nobel Peace Laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and Nora Cortiñas of the Mothers of the May Square-Founders’ Line and composed of 20 representatives of social, cultural, and political movements, networks, and institutions from Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, and Africa, would like first of all to thank the many people and organizations in Haiti who made this visit possible and who shared with us their experiences, testimonies, aches and hopes.

06.04.2005 Chile, March 5th, 2005 - the Chilean "No Excuses" Campaign kitted out 23 organizations from different parts of the country, with campaign materials, banners and pins to help raise awareness on the Millennium Goals.

06.04.2005 2005 got off to a bad start for human rights organizations in Guatemala. In January alone, rights groups or their workers suffered three break-ins, two murders, a bomb scare, threatening phone calls and several death threats.