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...Pope, as well as the presidents of Portugal and Spain who have all recognized and met with opposition leaders in the past. Recently, there has been a deplorable wave of political suppression in Cuba. The state has continued to silence people that they have labeled “counterrevolutionary dissidents??—people that Chile and the United States would call productive citizens. When President Bachelet visited Cuba, she put Chile’s reputation at risk. She has categorically failed to distinguish between a dictatorship of the right—the Pinochet regime of which...
...However, beneath the optimism exuding from these ‘dissidents?? there lurk very sinister premises that call their politics into question. Opposition to the Iraq War, when waged by the Democrats and their allies, has been scarred by its ‘imperiality’: Their activism has refused to recognize the occupation of Iraq as evidence of America’s hegemonic aspirations. In fact, liberal opposition typically enacts at least two imperial premises: first, that American lives and interests matter more than Iraqi ones, and second, that American foreign policy is generally benevolent. What opposition...
Where were our Congress members when Chi Shouzu was arrested? Actually, it is unlikely that most Americans even heard of Chi Shouzu—arrests like his are so regular that his story did not even make Western newspapers. “Dissidents?? like Chi Shouzu are held without trial, beaten and imprisoned. The authorities provide no official explanation for their arrests and their relatives are hardly ever informed of their loved ones’ unfortunate fate...
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