Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some advocates contend that legalization will also help U.S. foreign policy. They assert, with some justification, that the futile effort to stop drug smuggling is poisoning American relations with such important and otherwise friendly Latin nations as Colombia and Mexico that have been unable or unwilling to crack down on the drug trade. Finally, on the left, some advocates contend that legalization would remove a severe threat to individual freedom that is posed by widespread drug searches, demands for wholesale testing and the pending use of the military to enforce drug laws. If the sale of narcotics is permitted, says...
Foreign policy. The U.S. drug habit generates $2 billion in revenues for Latin American thugs. Crackdowns severely strain relations...
...disturbed or defending their nests, they frequently attack animals and humans. Although their venom is no more potent than that of European bees, they are much likelier to sting, and so many sting at once that serious injury, even death, can result. Hundreds have died from such attacks in Latin America...
...solution. In the novel, both the war and the love exist simultaneously, and there is love in the time of cholera. But one day the cholera, and the war, must end. By saying that the love can prevail, Marquez seems highly optimistic. It is possible that he is saying Latin Americans should concentrate on the positive and the eternal in their search for political peace and that they should avoid the cholera and the unpleasantness...
...while, the Soviets seemed to be winning almost everywhere. From Kampuchea in Southeast Asia to Angola and Ethiopia in Africa to Nicaragua in Latin America, Kremlin-backed or Kremlin-installed regimes had an ominous look of permanence. After all, Soviet power, once entrenched beyond its own borders, had never allowed itself to be dislodged by local resistance. There was no reason to think Afghanistan would be different. Quite the contrary, tucked up against the soft underbelly of Soviet Central Asia, that benighted country seemed to have become virtually a 16th republic of the U.S.S.R...