Word: authoritarianism
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...Shining Path in the early 1990s - allegations he says are part of a smear campaign - and led a failed uprising against former President Alberto Fujimori in October 2000, only a few weeks before Fujimori resigned and fled the country in a corruption scandal. "There is a dangerous authoritarian project lurking behind Mr. Humala," says Fernando Rospigliosi, a former interior minister."He will be a disaster for Peru's democracy and for its economy, applying models that failed around the region decades...
...SEEMS WORRIED ABOUT SOME ANTIDEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENTS IN RUSSIA, SUCH AS KREMLIN CONTROL OF THE MEDIA. The U.S. should be concerned about Russian domestic issues if Russians are concerned. Yes, the media are under some assault. There are some authoritarian methods being used. That is not in the interests of the people. Democracy is fragile...
...last weekend’s women’s water polo game against Brown, for example, a hardy crew of fans exemplified this ideal at Blodgett Pool. They gathered—much like their anti-authoritarian brethren in Puerto Rico—to paint the phrase “I Heart MOLLY” across their bare chests...
...world’s collapse into anarchy, a basic premise of the movie’s storyline? Easy, blame it on the Iraq war (“America’s war grew worse and worse” the script ominously tells us). Need a ready-made authoritarian figure? Make him white, conservative, and religious, and make his party’s symbol the Christian cross. Need targets of discrimination? Easy, make them racial minorities and homosexuals. Need a criminal conspiracy? Easy, use big business. It is only pettiness that can explain why, in a world under serious and unremitting...
...first glance, the headlines appear unconnected: The U.S. and its allies again fail to secure agreement on a U.N. Security Council ultimatum to Iran; democracy activists in Belarus take to the streets to denounce the electoral farce that returned the authoritarian Alexander Lukashenko to power; Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice holds a security summit in Australia with her counterparts from that country and Japan. Yet those headlines, together with the ones announcing closer economic ties and strategic ties during President Putin's visit to Beijing, hint at how Sino-Russian concerns over U.S. policy elsewhere may prolong the Iran deadlock...