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...rich white people" reflects the misperception held by many Americans that Latin America has been ruled by a few families since its independence. During 15 of the last 20 years, Peru has had rather progressive governments. As the author acknowledges in his article, the military Junta which ruled in the '70s showed "great sympathy for the landless poor and implemented a reform agenda...
THEN IT GOT really weird. What you might expect to be the usual sordid rightist military junta actually went on to implement, of all things, an APRA progressive reform agenda. The regime courted the Church, sympathized with the landless peasants, stressed social justice and generally confused the life out of every political scientist in the world. In 1980 the brass realized Peruvians were getting sick of them and returned power to--of all people--the befuddled Belaunde...
When a pro-Western military junta wants to win favor with the U.S., the preferred course includes holding relatively fair elections, then standing on the sidelines as a pliant civilian government is installed. If all goes well, the result may be more money from U.S. aid agencies. That is, unless the proposed new Prime Minister is an alleged drug trafficker...
Conservative critics charge that Faludi falsely conjures up a junta of antifeminists who conspired to force women to buy lacy underwear, watch reactionary movies, quit their jobs, mind the kids and do the laundry. "She chooses to invent a malevolent conspiracy instead of railing against God and the facts of nature," says author George Gilder, who describes himself as "America's No. 1 antifeminist." On the contrary, Gilder argues, the media and politicians are all in the ideological thrall of the feminists, "because feminism and sexual liberation are the religion of the intellectual class in America." The reason more women...
...days later, The Washington Post revealed that U.S. business leaders had pressured the administration to relax the sanctions. Most poor Haitians say they will suffer anything to get back their beloved leader, Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The New York Times captured the junta's response to the Bush move in a simple headline: "Leaders of Coup Gleeful After U.S. Loosens Its Embargo...