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...Reagan Administration had worked so obsessively in the 1980s to topple the Sandinistas, and because the Bush Administration had urged Aleman's prosecution as part of a wider crackdown on corruption in Latin America. Ortega is also a friend of Bush's hemispheric archfoes, Cuba's communist leader Fidel Castro and Venezuela's radical leftist President Hugo Chavez. The Bush Administration, in fact, has warned that if Ortega wins it may cut U.S. aid to Nicaragua...
When the then-recently triumphant Castro, a graduate of the University of Havana, came to Harvard in April of 1959, he addressed an enraptured audience, explaining his early desire to study here. Now, Castro’s alma mater will welcome Harvard students.A lucky group of Harvard students will be able to escape the interminable New England winter for the tropical breezes and raucous tunes of Cuba, a country steeped in history, culture, and geopolitical significance. Earlier this week, Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) announced that it had been granted a license...
There was little political interest, at least among my friends and dorm-mates. Fidel Castro, then the new Cuban leader, spoke at Harvard, and there were anti-nuclear sing-ins at a local coffee shop, but when the fire marshals shut down the shop hours before one event, few noticed. Woolworth’s in the Square drew occasional picketing and sit-ins, but few of us realized that it was part of a great movement to desegregate public accommodations nationwide...
...almost resigned to seeing it languish "archived in the Carpentaria Land Council office forever." Another laugh. "It was a brave publisher who took it up." Others might say clever. Established in 1995 as a bridge between commercial houses and academia, Giramondo's output has been small but sagacious. Peter Castro's novel The Garden Book and John Hughes' memoir The Idea of Home are but two literary hybrids that have monopolized Australia's recent prize lists. Says publisher and editor Ivor Indyk: "We're always looking for the exotic and the interesting and the complex under the surface of Australian...
...campaign strategist for Chávez's main opponent in the December presidential election, Manuel Rosales, says Chávez's "21st century socialism" is only a short-term fix. "The real fight against poverty is a fight against unemployment," Petkoff says. Others complain that Chávez is a Castro wannabe who has subverted Venezuela's democratic institutions, especially the courts, and may well seek a constitutional change to let him run for a third term in 2012 if, as expected, he wins re-election in December. For the most part, Venezuelan media are still free to rail at Ch?...