Word: fidelitys
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...will happen, he will pass. He is an anachronism in the 21st century." COLIN POWELL, U.S. Secretary of State, saying sanctions against Cuba would be lifted, but not while President Fidel Castro is in power...
...respond to any of the financial crises that are bubbling just below the surface of those regions. Moises Naim, editor of the monthly Foreign Policy and a former Venezuelan Trade and Industry Minister, joked that the attitude in Davos was best summed up by someone who didn't come. "Fidel Castro said he just hoped Bush would not turn out to be as stupid as he seems," said Naim. In addition to Bush's mandate problems, a sharply divided U.S. Congress could make it difficult for Washington to intervene quickly if, say, Argentina's economy crumpled again. "The fear...
...Arroyo realizes she has to accommodate her most influential People Power partners?not the eponymous people, but the cabal of generals who hoisted her to power. She moved swiftly to cement their support, shrewdly naming former President Fidel V. Ramos Special Ambassador of Goodwill, an anemic-sounding title for what could be a very powerful role. (Ramos is a former armed forces chief of staff, and during his six-year term as president there were no coup attempts.) Then, on her first day in office, Arroyo gave some of the juiciest government jobs to military...
...when she ousted Marcos, claiming he had rewritten it too many times to suit his dictatorship. That was true, but her act planted a seed of constitutional disregard. On several occasions in the 1990s, Aquino and Sin called people onto the streets to defend the new constitution. The reason: Fidel Ramos, Aquino's successor, was allegedly trying to amend the charter to allow himself a second term. Aquino and Sin didn't like that idea, and they used a mini-People Power movement to stop it. Their rallying cry: the constitution has to be respected...
...while debt had soared to record levels, throwing new IMF relief into doubt. Graft and corruption remain endemic in the Philippines, and they were focal points in Estrada's trial. Century-old demands by Muslim secessionists for an independent Mindanao had quieted at the end of the previous presidency, Fidel Ramos', but flared anew under the erratic management of the Estrada administration. But that...