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...same time, Raúl Castro had to notice that his Brazilian host, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva - who is the head of Brazil's Workers Party and supposedly the Castros' leftist soulmate - is perhaps Latin America's most acclaimed capitalist leader. Capitalism's excesses get deservedly excoriated for causing today's global catastrophe. But even Venezuela, which helps prop up Cuba's economy with cut-rate oil, has made it clear in recent elections that it's not the socialist hotbed that its left-wing President Hugo Chávez dreams of. Yes, the hypocritical drill...
...Opinion polls in France show that slightly more than half the population want shops to have the freedom to open on Sundays. But a powerful range of opponents combined against the idea. Leftist politicians and unions, for example, denounced the plan as introducing a seven-day work week. That, they say, would allow bosses to force workers to work Sundays - despite measures in the original bill that stipulated Sunday hours were both optional, and higher-paid. Conservatives, meantime, brushed off Sarkozy's assurances that the extra day of activity would boost France's economy, and focused on the fact that...
...reason. Does that sound angry? Terry Eagleton, an English philosopher, declared that Amis’s writings read like those of a “BNP thug”—or, to put it in American, a Neo-Nazi skinhead. “The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics And The Cult of Personality” by Jerome Corsi: It’s no exaggeration to call this extra-long political pamphlet a labor of pure hate. It was born out of one purpose: to sink the ship of Obama like Corsi did to that of John Kerry four...
...into a feast of commercial, and often trashy, entertainment. Isola dei Famosi is broadcast on the state RAI network and follows the success of the local version of Big Brother shown on Berlusconi's Mediaset network. In a sense, Luxuria's victory brings the process full circle. Berlusconi's leftist opponents, often so critical of the lowbrow entertainment that the Prime Minister has championed, now have a lowbrow champion of their...
...record 65% of eligible Venezuelan voters turned up to cast ballots in fiercely contested state and regional elections on Nov. 23. Candidates opposed to leftist President Hugo Chvez won the coveted mayor's post in Caracas as well as governorships in three key states, bringing their total to five and prompting boasts that Chvez's popularity was waning following a failed 2007 bid to extend his presidency. Chvez's Socialist Party remained in control of 17 states, however, which his supporters said reaffirmed Venezuelans' confidence in his leadership...