Word: marxist
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Leading in the polls is former President Daniel Ortega - the leftist Sandinista whom Nicaraguans tossed out in 1990 after he presided over a civil war-torn decade of Marxist authoritarianism and economic disaster. Ortega was a bona fide guerrilla hero who had helped lead the Sandinista insurrection that overthrew the tyrant Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979. But Ortega proved to be a clueless and corrupt head of state, and after his 1990 electoral humiliation, he had looked set for the Cold War scrap heap. He failed in presidential bids in 1996 and 2001, and in 1998 his stepdaughter, Zoilamerica Narvaez...
...Latin America relations. “The whole question is forming enough coalitions with enough groups to ring up the votes.” Birns said Montealegre is widely perceived as the U.S. government’s preferred candidate. Birns added that officials believe Ortega, the former Marxist who ruled the country in the 1980s, could ally with Venezulean President Hugo Chavez. “Even though Ortega doesn’t have a Marxist bone left in his body, it is still enough to terrify the United States,” said Birns. However, the U.S. will likely have...
...American Revolution, perhaps?) rarely come up.Fudging the “completed historical event” label is Historical Studies B-49, “History of American Capitalism,” which will be taught by Professor Sven Beckert, a nineteenth century Americanist with a predilection for nakedly Marxist historiography. Keep a lookout for B-45, a new course on the Darwinian Revolution, as the department’s few core offerings grow increasingly controversial and relevant.Then for the twentieth century: the most violent events in human history, represented in Historical Studies B by a rare few classes on wars...
Carlos Casta?o Gil had plenty of enemies. You expect that of a death squad commander in Colombia who killed hundreds of peasants, leftist polticians and suspected Marxist sympathizers. But in the end it was his own older brother Vicente, "El Professor," who supposedly hired the assassins who killed Carlos. He was shot two years ago in an ambush, at the age of 39. But it wasn't until Sept. 1 that Casta?o's skeleton was dug out of a shallow grave in the jungle and identified by DNA testing. You wouldn't exactly call it a dignified burial for Casta?o...
...Casta?o's reign of terror originally began as act of vengeance. His dairyman father was kidnapped in 1981 by Marxist rebels and held for a $7,000 ransom. The sum was paid, but the rebels killed him anyway. After that, Casta?o swore revenge and eventually raised a 30,000- man army of mercenaries funded by big landowners and cocaine traffickers. Then he and his brothers strong-armed their way into the drug trade, exporting a total of about 17 tons of coke and heroin to the U.S. and Europe...