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...Some weeks ago, a self-proclaimed “democratic revolution” brought Evo Morales to the Bolivian presidency. A long-time defender of cocaleros (coca growers) and an avid street protester, Morales finally achieved a popular majority leading MAS (Movement to Socialism), an acronym that also means “more” in Spanish. More is precisely what Bolivia needs, following dubious privatization contracts by previous neo-liberal administrations, rampant poverty, and the perennial White House-baked recipe of the “war on drugs.” Yet, a simple fact about Morales seems...
...Mexico, July 2 The race is extremely close, but all polls show the front-runner to be former Mexico City mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (who goes by the acronym AMLO). Still, some put his lead as low as 1% while others have it as high as 7%. His left-wing, anti-U.S. positions (which he describes nevertheless as "respectful") have given his candidacy momentum, especially in light of the unproductiveness of President Vicente Fox's "amigo" policies towards the big neighbor to the north. Fox's own party, the right-wing Partido Accion Nacional (PAN), repudiated the President...
...court document, which detailed the witnesses who provided information for the case, contained an entry with the word “HUID” followed by an eight-digit number under Sousa’s name. “HUID” is known on Harvard campus as an acronym for “Harvard University...
...playing and open a policy desk at the local Kinko's. "He told us he was in this cause for life," says Matthew, "and it was time to become a real organization." Bob Geldof, one of Bono's closest friends, came up with the name DATA, a double acronym meant to position the group as a nexus between the nonprofit development world (debt, AIDS, trade, Africa) and the results-oriented political world (democracy, accountability, transparency in Africa.) The name was also directed inward: no wishful thinking, just facts in all their nasty complexity...
...sciences, to do. At 6 p.m. he walks back to prison for the night. None of that has cowed Statkevich. He meets a Time correspondent during his lunch break in a modest café routinely bugged by the local kgb. (Lukashenko's secret police expressly retained the old Soviet acronym to play on Belarusians' ingrained fears.) But the prisoner of conscience doesn't seem to care what listeners might hear. "They packed me away because I said I would run for the presidency again," he says, looking as trim as the lieutenant colonel of Soviet missile forces he once...