Archivado en: internacional | escrito por goleech | 01/30/2005 | 15:06

...for the first time since the fall of Saddam Hussein in April 2003, the weary capital and parts of Iraq took on a veneer of a festival, as crowds danced, chanted and played soccer in streets secured by the most relentless security crackdown in memory. From the Kurdish north to the largely Shiite south, at thousands of polling stations, voters delivered a similar message: The election represented their moment to seize their future and reject a legacy of dictatorship and the bloodshed and hardship that has followed. (The Washington Post)
After a slow start, voters turned out in very large numbers in Baghdad today, packing polling places and creating a party atmosphere in the streets as Iraqis here and nationwide turned out to cast ballots in the country's first free elections in 50 years. (The New York Times)