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...Meanwhile, the masses are still puzzling out the implications of a military-heavy government. Some segments don't like it at all. "Gloria is more beholden to the military than to People Power," complains Wilson Fortaleza, president of the leftist political movement Sanlakas, which helped get people on the streets to oppose Estrada. Politicians are concerned about the military's renewed role. "One question remains to be sorted out," says Senator Rodolfo Biazon, former armed forces chief of staff. "Are we setting a standard for our military to be always a major factor in the resolution of political controversies...
...VENEZUELA Chávez Defiant President Hugo Chávez Frías reponded to the largest-ever protest against his government by appointing leftist Adina Bastidas to the post of Trade Minister, further alienating the business sector. An estimated 80,000 people marched through Caracas demanding Chávez moderate his policies or quit. Instead, pro-business Interior Minister Luis Miquilena resigned, jeopardizing party and parliamentary support for Chávez who also faces opposition from church leaders...
...study." Even so, Labrang teems with 2,000 monks and many pilgrims, who are often Chinese. "Older monks feel differently, but I didn't go through the Cultural Revolution, so I welcome them," says a monk too young to remember China's 1966-76 decade of chaos, when ultra-leftist Red Guards took sledgehammers to monasteries...
...counsel from Jaime Cardinal Sin, the archbishop of Manila. "Cardinal Sin said, as a Christian, if I am asked to be a godmother, it is my Christian duty," she relates, "because the sins of the father are not the sins of the son." In addition, Arroyo has included leftist groups in her three-month anti-Estrada opposition coalition; now that she's in power, they could try to water down her pro-globalization bias. That's another echo of the past: Aquino had similar ideological clashes within her government. More déjà vu: change sometimes comes fast...
...Situation Report: The U.S. has committed $1.3 billion to equip and train the Colombian military for a counterinsurgency campaign against leftist guerrillas who control more than one third of that country. Because the guerrillas allow massive drug cultivation in their territory, the U.S. justifies the money as part of its war on drugs, and the Colombian government is only to happy to accept since the rebels earn hundreds of millions every year taxing the narco-traffickers. But critics warn the expanded military commitment is simply drawing the U.S. into a quagmire, and point out the poor human rights record...