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Raul Castro has always been known as Fidel's enforcer - the ideologically hard-line, iron-fisted watchdog of his big brother's regime. It's hardly an undeserved rep, one he started building by overseeing the summary execution of scores of soldiers loyal to former Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista after...
For the fervent supporters of the firm-fisted leader, the bombs are all the proof they need that they have to give Uribe more time to consolidate the gains he has achieved in his first term. But critics say that the rebel actions show that the president's "democratic security...
Back in 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville prophesized a bipolar future with Russia and the United States as opposed master puppeteers. The duel of course, is passé today. Russia is technically a democracy, a supporter of free markets which strives to join the World Trade Organization, and the host of...
Only four months old, Kadima was created by Ariel Sharon with defectors - critics say "opportunists"- from Likud and Labor. And it took an iron-fisted patriarch like Sharon to hold this band of feisty Napoleons together. Party insiders admit that if Sharon were leading the party instead of lying in...
Asia's two most famous temple sites?Cambodia's Angkor Wat and Burma's Bagan?each have their partisans. Some say that Angkor's location amid dense foliage lends its ruins a heightened sense of mystery and romance. Others argue that the dry plain of Bagan provides a superior experience...