Word: colonialist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concerns about Communism in Central America. Any government in Latin America that defends its natural resources or tries to make a dramatic break with its colonialist past is immediately slapped with a label. That is one thing that keeps Americans from seeing the pluralism that exists in Nicaragua...
Prime Minister Thatcher's visit to the Falkland Islands can be considered an act of provocation only by a country that also deals in provocation and colonialist adventurism. Her action is loyal and constant in a world of inconstant and shifting alliances born of economic expedience...
...back Britain with sanctions as well as rhetoric has helped to divide the Americas once again along North-South lines. A sweeping alliance of left-and right-wing regimes, spanning the ideological spectrum from Cuba to Brazil, has rallied to support Argentina, miscasting it as a victim of colonialist subjugation. "The tilt toward Britain will destroy the coalition we must have if we are to prevent a Communist takeover of Central America," said North Carolina Republican Jesse Helms, the lone opponent of a Senate resolution endorsing a pro-British policy...