Word: caudillo
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...Sandinistas and said everything else would take care of itself," says Michael Shifter, vice president for policy at the Washington-based think tank Inter-American Dialogue. "That created a lot of discontent" that aided Ortega's eventual comeback. The new Ortega may still prove to be the old caudillo, but his victory is a reminder of the price the U.S. so often pays for prematurely declaring its missions accomplished...
...troops on a regular basis. That situation is occurring in Iraq because the U.S. does not have enough troops to close the borders with Syria and Iran. We won't win in Iraq until we have more troops to close its borders. Don Johnson Kirkland, Washington, U.S. Putting El Caudillo to Rest "Farewell To Franco" offered a simplistic view of Francisco Franco's dictatorial regime in Spain [Nov. 21]. The only reason that Franco is in the spotlight again is the current government's obsession with the Civil War. Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero seems...
...depraved military dictatorship in 1982 - only to be ousted by another coup a year later. In 1988, retired from the military, Ríos Montt formed the frg as a foe of Guatemala's rigid and venal oligarchy - shrewdly casting himself as the kind of populist caudillo (strongman) that Latin voters still tend to favor. The Maya Indians' traditional quiet stoicism about past trauma has made it easier for Ríos Montt to sell his quasi-delusional version of the local paramilitary squads he helped form, which terrorized the countryside until the civil war ended...
...only three months, he insists he is trying to reform the nation; but political violence has left several people shot and a schoolgirl killed in a bomb blast--and new questions about whether Aristide is still the populist hero the U.S. saved seven years ago or a Creole caudillo who may send another tsunami of Haitian boat people onto beaches run by Bush's brother, Florida Governor Jeb Bush. "Americans," says Aristide, 47, "ought to know that I am the democrat they remember...
Referring to the Golden Age of the Latin American caudillo, Ryszard Kapuscinski wrote that "stadiums play a double role: in peacetime they are sports venues; in war they turn into concentration camps." Well, in the future, in the synergistic bliss of the globalized economy, stadiums and arenas will simply turn into malls and food courts. The live event--the game itself--will become, at best, a point-of-purchase display. Already, most people attending a basketball game rarely glance at the live action. They watch the Jumbotron screens cantilevered above the court or the monitors mounted in the arena...