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Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics John Womack Jr. ’59 said he believed the Business School alum would not have helped the developing country’s working class...
...prospect of an Ortega victory has Washington alarmed - especially after the Reagan Administration had worked so obsessively in the 1980s to topple the Sandinistas, and because the Bush Administration had urged Aleman's prosecution as part of a wider crackdown on corruption in Latin America. Ortega is also a friend of Bush's hemispheric archfoes, Cuba's communist leader Fidel Castro and Venezuela's radical leftist President Hugo Chavez. The Bush Administration, in fact, has warned that if Ortega wins it may cut U.S. aid to Nicaragua...
...neglect. Nicaragua emerged from the contra war an economic basket case, and despite having played such a major role in fueling that conflict, the U.S. has not done enough to help the country back onto its feet. Nicaragua may simply be echoing the theme playing out all over Latin America right now, where U.S.-backed capitalist reforms have failed to reverse an epic gap between rich and poor, prompting voters to turn to leftists like Chavez. Seeing little to like in their immediate future, Nicaraguan voters could be poised to turn back the clock...
...vertical park” constructed from a former housing project and fed by waste water from the surrounding apartment buildings. Many of Reyes’s works were inspired by ideas he encountered while completing a residency at Harvard in partnership with the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS). In 2003, Reyes was one of roughly 200 applicants for a fellowship with DRCLAS’ Art Forum, only two of whom eventually received invitations.Over the next three years, Reyes made a series of extended visits to the center that enabled him to interact with faculty and take advantage...
...inefficacy, I fear that the excessive use of “literally” may prove to be a permanent feature of our prose, since embellishment is certainly here to stay. But can’t we all make one small step toward conversational sanity? Take note of the Latin adage, Voluptates commendat rarior usus. It means “Moderation in all things,” literally...