Word: marxist
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...austerity would improve living standards for all, more of the region's 500 million people are stuck in poverty, and its economies look more like Global Crossing than the global players they aspired to be. The sense that Washington was losing influence in Latin America deepened last week when Marxist guerrillas fired mortar shells in Bogota, killing 20, during President Alvaro Uribe's inauguration...
...investigation of hundreds of boxes from which mail is sent to a sorting office in Trenton, New Jersey, where four anthrax-laced letters were postmarked last year. COLOMBIA State of Emergency Newly installed President Alvaro Uribe declared a state of emergency in response to a wave of attacks by Marxist guerrilla groups. The decision will allow the President to impose new legal and security measures to confront what his government called "a regime of terror in which democratic authority is sinking." As one of the first consequences of the state of emergency, the government decreed a one-time tax, which...
...Colombia's new President. No group claimed responsibility, but several factors pointed to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (farc): the deadliness of the strike within 800 m of the presidential palace, the use of homemade mortars and an earlier pledge by Uribe to get tough on the Marxist guerrilla group. "Expect action every day, but not miraculous results," said Uribe...
GREECE Not Dead Yet In a five-page proclamation in the Eleftherotypia newspaper, the Marxist terror group Revolutionary Organization 17 November announced that it was "still alive." The text said that while "many fighters" had been lost?14 suspected members were arrested during July?the battle was not over. 17 November said that officials should be braced for more action, including hostage taking, in the near future. The Greek government, its antiterrorist units and foreign intelligence agencies debated whether the text was genuine. Greek police said that its down-to-earth style was suspicious: in the past, the group claimed...
...that, 100 years later, Pinochet's "refinement of the recipe" ended up "passing the flavor back" in the form of free-market Thatcherism. But Beckett takes no more than a fleeting glimpse at the U.S., which played a central role in the coup in which Chile's democratically elected Marxist President, Salvador Allende Gossens, died. Chile is still coming to terms with the horrors that followed. While Pinochet, now 86, has been deemed - in both Britain and Chile - too ill to face trial, activists still call for Henry Kissinger to be prosecuted. U.S. Secretary of State at the time...