Word: insurrectionism
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"Incantation" is a kind of wandering epic in search of its audience, that is, its "people." At one point, the trial of a student charged with insurrection against the government is interrupted by the demand to know who the minjung or "people" really are. The open search for an identity...
The governments of Latin America are by and large willing to let Nicaragua have its revolution. They are more interested in negotiating safeguards designed to keep Nicaragua from spreading insurrection to their countries, in short, a policy of containment. In 1984 the so-called Contadora group --Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and...
The insurrection, avowedly mounted to protest Thailand's faltering economy, began shortly after midnight as rebel tanks rolled to strategic positions in Bangkok. By 5 a.m. the insurgents had captured Radio Thailand and at least one government television station. At 7:30 a.m. Bangkok residents heard an announcement on their...
The sun came out in Britain last week after five gloomy months, but it was not shining on Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. First there had been local elections in early May in which her Conservatives took a severe drubbing from the Social Democratic/Liberal Alliance. Then came a dark cloud of...
The Nicaraguan government evidently feels that its military presence close to the Honduran frontier will be enough to contain the contras. But the Sandinistas do not seem to have a strategy for the domestic disenchantment that has begun to seep even into their own ranks. In Managua's Barrio Riguero...