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   | | | | Politics this week Aug 19th 2010 From The Economist print edition A suicide-bomb killed at least 59 people at an army recruitment centre in Baghdad. The attack came a day after talks on forming a coalition government were suspended and just as American combat troops start to withdraw from Iraq.
Lebanon’s parliament has passed a law allowing Palestinian refugees to work legally. The move gives the 400,000 Palestinians the same rights as other foreign workers and ends years of discrimination which limited them to the most menial jobs. In South Africa more than a million public sector workers went on strike indefinitely after rejecting the government’s offer of a 7% pay rise. Unions affiliated with COSATU, South Africa’s main union federation, were holding out for an 8.6% rise plus an improved housing subsidy. Schools and hospitals are likely to suffer as teachers and nurses announced they would join the strike. Barack Obama joined the row about the construction of a mosque close to Ground Zero in New York. The president told an Islamic audience at the White House that he believed “Muslims have the same right to practise their religion as everyone else in this country. And that includes the right to build a place of worship and a community centre on private property in Lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances.” He later clarified his remarks—after Republican criticism—by saying that he was not commenting “on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there”. The Justice Department threatened to sue the popular sheriff of Maricopa County in Arizona if he did not comply with an ongoing investigation into discrimination against Hispanics. Joe Arpaio, nicknamed “America’s toughest sheriff”, is a strong proponent of a crackdown against illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, Congress rushed through, and Mr Obama signed, a bill that provided for more than 1,000 extra border agents. A federal appeals court in California decided to keep the state’s ban on gay marriage in place until it hears the case. The ban was overturned in a celebrated decision by a lower court two weeks ago. Myanmar’s ruling generals said an election would be held on November 7th. It will be the first such poll since 1990, when the democratic opposition party led by Aung San Suu Kyi walloped the government but was then prevented from taking power. Her party has announced that it will boycott the election, but a breakaway faction will contest it. The outcome, which is likely to be rigged, could prepare for the succession to a younger generation of oligarchs. See article South Korea’s president, Lee Myung-bak, delivered a surprising speech on “liberation” day, August 15th, calling for a fund to be started to pay for the eventual reunification of North and South Korea, perhaps by levying a “reunification tax”. Mr Lee’s domestic critics suspected the tax might be used surreptitiously to plug holes in the budget. Others saw it as an attempt to put pressure on the North. See article Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s president, ordered private-security firms within the country to disband or demobilise within four months. The firms’ agents, who often operate with impunity, have become a target of popular anger. As many as 40,000 heavily armed civilians work under security contracts worth billions of dollars. Nearly all Western governments and NGOs active in Afghanistan depend on their services. A bomb blast in Aksu, a city in Xinjiang region in western China, killed at least seven people and injured 14 others. Xinjiang was the scene, last year, of deadly clashes between local Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese. Floodwaters in Pakistan now cover more than a fifth of the country, with the waters not expected to recede until the end of August. The UN, having appealed for $459m in emergency aid, reported that only 50% of that total had been received. Eight million people need immediate food aid. See article Research in Motion (RIM), maker of the BlackBerry, found itself in a stand-off with the government of India, the world’s second-largest market for wireless devices after China. India has demanded that RIM let it decrypt the contents of messages sent by the devices; it is concerned that they might be used to co-ordinate terrorist attacks. Unless a solution is found, India plans to shut down BlackBerries on August 31st.
France started expelling hundreds of Roma, most of them Romanian nationals, saying they were living in the country illegally. The Romanian government expressed concern, and the European Commission, mindful of EU rules on freedom of movement, said it was monitoring the situation. Terrorism returned to Russia when the volatile north Caucasus region was hit by two bombs in one day, one of them deadly. The attacks, which took place in Christian-majority provinces, are further evidence that Russia’s violent Islamist insurgency is spreading beyond Muslim provinces. Campaigning started ahead of Sweden’s general election, due on September 19th. The prevailing European mood of austerity was conspicuously absent, as both the ruling centre-right coalition and the opposition Social Democrats pledged tax cuts.
Edelmiro Cavazos, the mayor of a suburb of Monterrey, Mexico’s industrial capital, was abducted and murdered by drug-traffickers. Officials said that Mr Cavazos, a member of the governing National Action Party, was targeted because he was trying to clean up the local police. A court in Venezuela barred El Nacional, one of the country’s leading newspapers, from publishing information about a wave of violent crime, after it printed a photo of corpses in the Caracas morgue. At the same time, a second court barred other newspapers from publishing photos relating to violence for a month. The government of Hugo Chávez faces a legislative election on September 26th. See article In Bolivia protesters in the city of Potosí ended three weeks of roadblocks that had trapped dozens of foreign tourists and closed several mines, after the socialist government of Evo Morales agreed to build a new airport and cement factory. Customer service To change your subscription settings or to unsubscribe please click here, (you may need to log in) and select the newsletters you wish to unsubscribe from. As a registered user of The Economist online, you can sign up for additional newsletters or change your e-mail address by amending your details. If you received this newsletter from a friend and you would like to subscribe to The Economist online's wide range of newsletters, please go to the The Economist online registration page and fill out the registration form. This mail has been sent to: eleccion@yahoogroups.com
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