Word: leftist
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...Philippine maximum-security prison while serving a 10-year jail term for explosives possession. He was also a suspect in the December 2000 bombing of a Manila train station in which 22 people died. Philippine police said al-Ghozi was killed in a shootout. Authorities denied allegations from leftist militants and some politicians that the fugitive was executed while in custody in order to score points with U.S. President George W. Bush in advance of his Oct. 18 visit to the country...
Given Sanchez’s tenuous hold on power—he was reelected 14 months ago with only 22 percent of the vote in the same election that ushered in a much more leftist Congress—and his easy association with the dreaded ‘foreign influences,’ it is no surprise that he was easy prey for the likes of Evo Morales, who led the Movement Toward Socialism in strikes and rioting. Morales has criticized Sanchez for his gas project and for his efforts to put tighter controls on the Bolivian production of cocoa...
...panel, sponsored by two of the most leftist parties in this left-leaning city—the Green-Rainbow Party and the Progressive Democrats of Cambridge—was moderated by Cantabrigian Robert B. Reich, who served as Secretary of Labor under Clinton and a Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate in last year’s race...
...fierce bearing of witness against communism may have made him a darling of Western conservatives, yet he has been equally disdainful of the "soulless materialism" that has accompanied the emergence of free market capitalism in Eastern Europe. Cold War concerns may have prompted him to drive the leftist bishops of Latin America out of the Church, and yet he has found himself also at odds with those of their successors who embrace a "theology of prosperity," emphasizing - like the leftists he silenced - that the Church's priority and natural constituency is the poor. And that, of course, is also where...
When General Efrain Rios Montt was Guatemala's military dictator from 1982 to 1983, during the bloodiest phase of a 36-year-long civil war, his army massacred Maya Indian peasants suspected of aiding leftist guerrillas. The throb of military helicopters above highlands villages was often followed by deafening automatic rifle fire. Tens of thousands died, and a federal genocide case is now pending against Ríos Montt in a Guatemalan court. Asked at the time about his "scorched-earth" strategy, Ríos Montt quipped, "We don't have a policy of scorched earth - we have a policy...