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Viewed from washington, Latin American politics can sometimes seem like a throwback to an earlier age, as if the U.S. were watching a meeting of a Che Guevara fan club. Leftist, anti-Yanqui sentiments, thought to have faded with the 20th century, have made a comeback, embodied by leaders like Venezuela's radical Hugo Chàvez, Brazil's former union boss Luiz Inàcio Lula da Silva and Bolivia's socialist Evo Morales. Never mind coming to terms with these leaders--the U.S. finds it hard even to talk with them. An interpreter would be useful...
...book items.” My first job was in one such diversified bookstore that sold local music and hummus-laden bagels alongside Rushdie and Stephen King. Opened by two aging hippies, the bookstore was a patchouli-scented downtown institution with walls buried under rainbow flags and Che Guevara posters. The store has survived thanks to its role as a watering hole for the local hippie community. Unfortunately for me, this meant that, despite the fact that I was better-read than the majority of the staff, I had to be hidden in the back storeroom, where my sound hygiene...
...expect to get in return for their investment in Nicaragua. Next November, delegations from both countries plans to meet in Managua to discuss the seaport. "Nicaragua must give a 'quid pro quo' ... because the other two partners have not talked about [the seaport development being a] gift," says Roger Guevara, a Managua-based lawyer and former Nicaraguan ambassador to Venezuela, in an e-mail to TIME. "Certainly the Nicaraguan Government has to study what... they can offer," he says. "This includes a possibility of more than political and diplomatic support in the international forums...
Traveling widely and feted by the wealthy and well-connected, Garibaldi was a favorite in Victorian England of what historian Rohan McWilliams calls a precursor to the "radical chic" crowd. His mix of egalitarianism, insurgent tactics and rugged sex appeal made him a forerunner of Argentine Marxist Che Guevara. Though T-shirts may be rare, after his death Garibaldi's name would adorn monuments, towns and mountain ranges from Rome to New York City, from Russia to Brazil...
...whose most recognizable government official, Chief Executive Donald Tsang, sports an idiosyncratic bow tie, top-down fashion mandates are something of a risky thing. So it's perhaps unsurprising that only a few of Sunday's demonstrators sported anything near the prescribed white. For the marchers, clad in Che Guevara and Hard Rock Cafe t-shirts, skinny jeans and cargo shorts, a consistent look proved difficult...