Yearbook 2008 Hungary. Hungary in March recognized Kosovo’s independence, prompting Serbia to call its ambassador from neighboring countries. Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, stated that countries that make such a decision cannot have good relations with Serbia. In Hungary, there were concerns about how the ethnic Hungarians in the Serbian province of Vojvodina would be…
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Honduras 2008
Yearbook 2008 Honduras. In early October, Honduras’s congress approved the government’s proposal to allow the country to join Alternative Bolivarian para las Américas (ALBA), the Latin American cooperation organization created and led by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. The opposition chose to cast its votes in the congressional vote. The high crime rate in Honduras continues…
Haiti 2008
Yearbook 2008 Haiti. A mistrust was made to Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis in April. The Senate first refused to approve his successor Michèle Pierre-Louis’s government plan. It was not until April 19 and June 7 that the Senate election elections held for more than a year were held and that would guarantee necessary political…
Guyana 2008
Yearbook 2008 Guyana. A dark shadow fell over the celebration of Guyana’s 38th Independence Day on February 23 through two brutal massacres of armed gangs. Eleven people, including five children, were murdered on January 26 in the city of Lusignan and on February 17, 12 people were murdered in the gold digger town of Bartica…
Guinea-Bissau 2008
Yearbook 2008 Guinea Bissau. Guinea-Bissau in February became the third country to be granted special support from the UN Peace-building Commission, whose task is to help rebuild society after a conflict and to prevent new outbreaks. In recent years, Guinea-Bissau, along with several other West African countries, has begun to be used as a transit…
Guinea 2008
Yearbook 2008 Guinea. The mass protests in 2007 meant that President Lansana Conté was forced to give in to the trade unions and the political opposition, among other things by giving the new Prime Minister Lansana Kouyaté greater influence. In 2008, however, it became clear that the president and the circle around him have largely…
Guatemala 2008
Yearbook 2008 Guatemala. Politically, the year in Guatemala was dominated by a spy scandal, which was quickly dubbed “Guategate” by the media. In early September, it was revealed that eavesdropping equipment was found in both President Álvaro Colom’s office and home, as well as in Vice President Rafael Espada’s office. The suspicions fell on the…
Grenada 2008
Yearbook 2008 Grenada. Attorney Tillman Thomas became Grenada ‘s new prime minister after the July parliamentary elections, when his Liberal Party National Democratic Congress (NDC) defeated the bourgeois New National Party (NNP), which has been in office for 13 years. NDC received just over 51 percent of the vote, while NNP took home just under…
Greenland 2008
Yearbook 2008 Greenland. At the beginning of the year, Danish politicians demanded an investigation into data that the US CIA used Greenland as a stopover and gas station for illegal prison transport. When the government’s inquiry into the issue was presented during the autumn, Denmark’s Foreign Minister Per Stig Møller claimed that there was no…
Greece 2008
Yearbook 2008 Greece. Athens, Thessaloniki, Patras and several other cities were shaken by crows during most of December. Concern was triggered by police in the Athens district of Exarchia on December 6 shooting a 15-year-old boy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, to death. Students at Athens’ prestigious Technical College became leading in violent protests against the police and…