Word: maoists
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...Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything,” Apple Chairman Steve Jobs gleefully proclaimed last week at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. Maoist China had Little Red Books, Jacobin France had Phrygian Caps; Any doubts about the icon by which our age will be remembered have surely now been dispelled with a Multi-Touch click. The vanguard of cell phones, laptops, and music players have finally achieved the sleek unity that is the iRevolution’s ultimate victory. And this revolution occurs at the crucial intersection of our crazed gadgetphilia...
...murdering. Human rights groups have regularly denounced Pinochet’s torture and execution of his political opponents, yet the same organizations often overlook Cuba’s then routine torture of tens of thousands of its dissidents. Not to mention the atrocities committed in the Stalinist Soviet Union, Maoist China, or other socialist Latin American governments. It is important to remember that communism can be very dangerous—especially in South America, where communist revolutionaries were often backed by naïve electorates and armies of loyal guerilla fighters. Compared to other South American dictatorships?...
After a decade of fighting, Maoist rebels last week signed a peace accord and vowed to drop their weapons until elections early next year, when Nepal will vote on whether to remain a monarchy...
...SENTENCED. Abimael Guzmán, 71, founder and leader of Shining Path, the Peruvian Maoist guerilla movement whose bloody campaign to establish communist rule in the 1980s and '90s claimed more than 30,000 lives; to life imprisonment; in Lima. Guzmán's partner Elena Iparraguirre, 59, also received a life sentence and 10 associates got 24 to 35 years. The verdicts end a yearlong hearing before a civil tribunal, Guzmán's third trial since his capture in 1992. His lawyers plan to appeal...
...grimness inside the building these days. Gazing through the room's giant porthole, the paper's foreign editor, François Sergent, sighs. "We could have done better with our readership," he says. Readers seem to agree. Nearly 33 years after Jean-Paul Sartre and a group of Maoist intellectuals [an error occurred while processing this directive] launched their journal in the aftermath of the 1968 Paris riots, Libé - as the left-wing daily paper is dubbed - appears close to death. The title's unlikely major shareholder, the aristocratic banking heir Edouard de Rothschild, has given a joint staff...