Derek Gatopoulos

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Rights group urges crackdown on race crimes

Derek Gatopoulos · July 10, 2012 10:09 pm

FILE This Tuesday, May 8, 2012 file photo shows Greek leader of Coalition of the Radical Left party, SYRIZA, Alexis Tsipras lduring a meeting with Greek President Karolos Papoulias, on taking the mandate to form a coalition government in Athens. The extreme left-wing Tsipras believes the budget-cutting imposed on Greece, which is suffering through its fifth year of recession and an unemployment rate nearly 22 percent, should be cancelled. Global financial markets are on tenterhooks over a possible victory by the tough-talking 37-year-old, who dresses casually and has a portrait of the Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara on his office wall. His radical agenda scares even many Europeans who have railed against austerity. And if he's given the power to carry it out, Greece may soon find itself kicked out of the euro common currency. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis, pool)

Youthful rebel targets Greek establishment

Derek Gatopoulos · June 11, 2012 7:00 pm