Calm in Guadeloupe amid strike negotiations - 23 Feb 09

After weeks of violent protests and the slaying of a popular Union leader, the French President Nicolas Sarkozy says the worst of Guadeloupe's unrest is over.

But masked demonstrators are still blocking the Carribean nation's main highway, and employers are still in negotiations with striking workers.

Sebastian Walker reports from Guadeloupe.

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[slc180]

Wow! Looks like the living standards of blacks in Guadeloupe and Martinique aren't that much different from that of their brothers and sisters on the island of Haiti whom won their independence from France long ago.

[vyrgo84]

mmmhhh fuckable chick at the end!

[vyrgo84]

you said it!

[aDaBrick]

do you know that in september is hurricanes season, don't you?

[PiErRe6363]

hope your journey in Guadeloupe will be good!

[yourm0mlikesme]

thank god i am goin there in september

[oliblack]

white french people are very racist

[blinx91]

Smelly white chicks?

omg... smell yoursefl before you talk.

[nviard]

Are you from the KKK ?

[Gallas2000]

You will never be treated as equals.sorry.