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The roughly $1.6 billion annual trade between the two countries is critical to the survival of the regime in Pyongyang - about half of North Korea's daily oil supply and a slightly lower proportion of its food imports come from China. And the lion's share of that trade has...
The Core had long been threatening education like a gang of Carthaginians invading the Republic. Only in 2002 was it finally pronounced inadequate and in need of replacement. Its model of awkward categories and trivial information had led to a crisis of liberal education at the College, and so a...
Hardly surprising, then, that right-wing conservatives see Bachelet's government as a menace to traditional values. "This is the ideology of liberation from taboos, blocks, burdens and traumas that promises happiness for all. A happiness that never arrives" says Gonzalo Rojas, a law professor, columnist and self-declared supporter...
An Iraqi tribunal delayed its ruling, from Oct. 16 until the end of the month, on whether the ex-dictator committed crimes against humanity. The defense said a "guilty" ruling could be "catastrophic."
In Mexico, this process took an absurd turn when an Austrian archduke was installed as Emperor of Mexico by the French forces of Napoleon III. After defeating the Habsburg Emperor, local conservatives argued that the hero of the résistance, Benito Juárez, concentrated too much power. So...