Word: backlashers
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...plethora of protest prints in an exhibit that spans six centuries and features works from playing cards and t-shirts to images by Goya, Picasso and Warhol. For its scale, the show is incredibly comprehensive in its scope. Representative pieces from movements as dissimilar as AIDS awareness and backlash against Louis Philippe’s constitutional monarchy share the gallery’s walls, united in inky rebellion.Opening on the heels of this year’s midterm elections, the exhibit makes no bones about its desire to provoke discussion. It states its ambition...
Ortega may have trouble solidifying his hold on power, as he won with only 38% of the vote. That was still 9 percentage points ahead of his nearest rival, U.S.-backed banker Eduardo Montealegre, leading some to conclude that Ortega profited from voter backlash against perceived U.S. meddling in the election. However, a bigger problem than Yanqui interference may have been Yanqui neglect. After Ortega was ousted from power in 1990, the U.S. did little to help war-ravaged Nicaragua get back on its feet. "We got rid of the Sandinistas and said everything else would take care of itself...
...scale of America's troop commitment in Iraq has always been a political question, answered in the context of the concern by the war's architects to avoid provoking a Vietnam-style domestic political backlash sabotaging the mission...
...decade after communism's collapse, Latin American voters began to express their anger at the failure of Washington-backed capitalist reforms and free trade agreements to narrow the epic gap between rich and poor in the region. That backlash has helped Ortega, 60, who insists his politics are more moderate today - he is widely viewed as more of a cynical opportunist than a radical Marxist - to take advantage of a divisive feud inside Montealegre's Liberal Constitutionalist Party that ended up splitting its vote this year. As Ortega's poll numbers climbed, the Bush Administration went into panic mode, publicly...
...around the Supreme Court order, even if that means changing the Constitution. The Court's order is opposed by the ruling Congress Party and its main opposition, while Delhi's Municipal Corporation says it cannot carry out any more sealings because of the danger of a violent backlash. But after another hearing on Monday, the Supreme Court was adamant: The sealing drive will continue...