Word: expropriationism
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On another "great" day eight years ago, Peru's leftist military junta took power. Shortly after this change came agrarian reform, closer Peruvian links with the Soviet Union, and the expropriation of U.S. copper and oil interests. The drop in food production after the land reform, however, sent high prices...
are more discreet abroad, unsure what the new limits are on their quest for profit. United Fruit's decline opens new options for Central American nationalists. Expropriation is no longer heresy, regulation is almost taken for granted, and even some control seems feasible.
The seizure brought screams of rage from landowners and their allies. With the powerful industrialists known as "the Monterrey Group" in the lead, businessmen shut down shops and factories in cities across the country in a 24-hour sympathy strike. Full-page newspaper ads accused Echeverria of "attacking the productive...
Koenig was also concerned that Israeli Arabs might feel "a hope that time is working on their side." One consequence, he feared, would be "an uncontrollable outburst" of anti-Jewish violence some day. In fact, while Koenig was preparing his report last spring, six Arabs were killed by police in...
Whatever the makeup of the Cabinet, it will have difficulty upholding Portugal's new constitution, which calls for an advanced form of socialism with worker control of factories, state planning and expropriation of the country's principal means of production. The Popular Democrats have serious reservations about this...