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...Managua hotel ballroom, schmoozing local and foreign investors, Ortega sounds like a changed man. "We won't eradicate poverty by eradicating capital or alienating investors but by joining forces with them," he says. Ortega is playing to the audience, but even former rivals believe that his evolution from communist strongman to nascent capitalist may be genuine. Says Morales: "Daniel Ortega deserves a chance to vindicate himself...
...foreign-run hotel in Hanoi, the Metropole, to plot their future fortunes. "In that one bar on any given night," recalls Salzman, "there were people who, combined, could have pledged to invest $50 billion on the spot." The good times didn't last. In large part due to the communist government's murky investment rules and snail-pace economic reforms, investors grew frustrated and disillusioned over Vietnam's prospects. After the 1997 Asian financial crisis hit, the country's growth rate plunged from 8.2% to 4.8% in two years. "Vietnam didn't so much crash," Salzman recalls. "It was more...
...threatening rhetoric only accelerated the country's nuclear research and has opened the door for the spread of nuclear arms to other countries. But imposing economic sanctions on Kim's regime would only bring more suffering to the broad population of the country, while the ruthless tyrant and his Communist Party buddies would enjoy the horn of plenty as usual...
...Known as "The Man Without A Face" - for many years, Western spy agencies did not even have a photo of him - Wolf was the son of a German Jewish doctor and playwright, a Communist who had to flee Hitler and ended up in Moscow. He attended elite party schools in the Soviet Union, was trained for undercover work, returned to Germany as a journalist covering the Nuremburg trials and joined the East Germany spy service at its inception. In 1952, because his pungent Stalinism convinced Russian leaders of his loyalty, he became its chief - and brilliant...
...economy and fought a civil war with U.S.-backed contra rebels that killed some 50,000 people. Ortega was finally ousted in a 1990 election, and for the past 16 years, during which he twice failed to recapture the presidency, he seemed little more than a relic of the communist...