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ALFREDO STROESSNER Paraguay After a 1989 coup ended his 35-year dictatorship, he hightailed it to Brazil, where he lives a luxurious life, with his wife, in a mansion outside the capital of Brasilia...
...partnership in Brazilian music - "he's No. 1 and I'm No. 2. I'm quite at ease with it." Gil is also at ease in Brasilia, which is a shock. After all, this is the man who in the 1960s led the musical opposition to Brazil's military dictatorship - he was exiled to London for his role in the Tropicalismo movement, which embraced permissive attitudes the generals found threatening. No wonder his fans thought he might struggle to go, as he puts it, "from throwing stones to living in the greenhouse." Gil hesitated before accepting his new post...
...TIME named him again, saying his reforms had "changed the daily lives of his nation's citizens to a greater extent than any other world leader." Indeed, wrote TIME, his blend of state ownership and private property, of central planning and competitive markets, of political dictatorship and limited economic and cultural freedom, holds "promise for changing the course of history...
Whether democracy, monarchy or dictatorship of the people, a government can only be effective so long as its citizens believe in it. The Hong Kong government's greatest failing may be its complete inability to inspire trust. The economy is reeling, anxiety is mounting about potentially harsh anti-subversion laws, and a fresh health crisis is brewing. Yet all those problems-serious though they are-are mere symptoms of the underlying ailment. Even in the colonial era, Hong Kong's citizenry put its faith in its leaders to do their best by the people. But now the growing sentiment...
...have failed to create a system that guarantees democracy," warns Viktor Yuschenko, leader of the Our Ukraine bloc, the largest opposition faction in parliament, and a former Prime Minister removed by Kuchma in April 2000 for his modest attempts at reform. "We are not just close to a dictatorship; we are already in a serious phase of dictatorship." Don't expect to hear about this through the temniki. The New York-based organization Human Rights Watch recently described the government directives as "subtle but very effective censorship" and urged the Ukrainian parliament - which called hearings on the matter...