It was like a country in a federation that had suddenly split in two.
The result was a positive strengthening of the federal union, which was to be sworn formally every five years; and the admission of French-speaking Fribourg to a federation that had hitherto been exclusively a German-speaking one was highly significant for the future development of Switzerland.
"The state is responsible for all these deaths," said Orlando Chirinos, a former Chávez ally who helps lead a labor federation that has seen several members killed in this northern city.
The donation was made through FEBAH, a national disability-rights federation that has been a UNICEF partner since 2008.
A fourth and final major difference is that PiS is a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), a soft Eurosceptic transnational federation that has little political cloud in Brussels.
Ethiopia has maintained its elite standing in the world of international distance running despite a national track and field federation that has been corrupt, incompetent and chronically short of money.
Perhaps Nike might be able to push for the inclusion of Muslim women, considering their new partnership is with Fiba, the basketball federation that has still not rescinded a headcovering ban.
A feud among members of the board of the United States Chess Federation that has spawned several lawsuits took another turn over the weekend when four members of its six-member board voted to kick the other two members out of the federation.
Jyrki Raina, general secretary of IndustriALL Global Union, the union federation that has coordinated the action, welcomed the "'unparalleled" letter.
Barrios intervened repeatedly in the affairs of the other Central American republics in an effort to restore the five-nation federation that had collapsed in 1838.
