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...Philippines' most wanted kidnappers; after being shot by police; in Dinalupihan, Bataan. Yap has been connected to at least six kidnappings this year, and victims included his own neighbors and former business partners. There have been more than 100 kidnappings in the Philippines this year; last week a local Coca-Cola executive bled to death after being abducted...
...Coca Cola and McDonald’s don’t determine outcomes, but that’s not what soft power’s about,” he said. “The way you attract [support] is the nature of your policies...
Putting aside the inherent contradiction and irony of those words, even if one accepts Smith’s premise (and I do not) that learning about Western cultures is more important than learning about those in the East, he should realize that in this age of Coca Cola stalls in Bangladesh and martial arts films dominating Hollywood box offices, the cultures of the two hemispheres are inseparable. Furthermore, to suggest that the teachings of Mohandas K. Gandhi were not the primary inspiration for the political philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. would be to call King himself a liar. Confucius...
...motivating force for insurgents who have carried out more than 400 armed actions in the past two years. Most, like an ambush last July that killed five Peruvian army soldiers and two guides, have taken place in the central highland jungles, where Shining Path now taxes the lucrative coca-leaf shipments for cocaine traffickers. The revival of Sendero Luminoso, as Shining Path is known in Spanish, is a stinging sign of Peru's and South America's failure to address the epic levels of rural poverty that worsened under the capitalist reforms of the 1990s. Since locking up Shining Path...
...Indian people of Bolivia are not rich. They do not live in the moneyed neighborhoods of La Paz. They are subsistence farmers and coca growers and miners. They are the present and they are the protesters. For Quechua and the Aymara people, the natives of Bolivia, their identity is bound tightly in race or non-race (non-whiteness...