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In this Feb. 23, 2009 file photo, labor union members shout slogans during a protest in Point-a-Pitre, French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.
Lately weeks of strikes and outbursts of rioting on Guadeloupe and nearby Martinique have disrupted the Caribbean calm. The world economic crisis is pushing up prices of staples that already cost more than on the French mainland, and reviving the resentment of the mixed-race majority toward the descendants of slave-owners and white colonists who still run much of the islands' economies. For French President Nicolas Sarkozy, already unpopular, the Caribbean unrest is a big challenge. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)
In this Feb. 23, 2009 file photo, labor union members shout slogans during a protest in Point-a-Pitre, French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.
Lately weeks of strikes and outbursts of rioting on Guadeloupe and nearby Martinique have disrupted the Caribbean calm. The world economic crisis is pushing up prices of staples that already cost more than on the French mainland, and reviving the resentment of the mixed-race majority toward the descendants of slave-owners and white colonists who still run much of the islands' economies. For French President Nicolas Sarkozy, already unpopular, the Caribbean unrest is a big challenge. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)