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...arrogant, pampered technocrats--and a cookie jar for Venezuela's elite, whose corruption has left two-thirds of the population in poverty. Among the poor was Rodriguez's farming family. It made him all the more receptive to economists like Bernard Mommer, a German-born Marxist who taught Rodriguez at Caracas' Central University. As a Congressman, Rodriguez chafed in the 1990s as PDVSA opened up to what he considered excessive foreign investment and hiked production...
...liberal Democrat who supported Howard Dean and Bill Clinton. I have supported gay marriage since birth, or at least that’s how I feel. My social vision for this country, as my conservative Republican roommate likes to point out, sometimes borders on Marxist...
DIED. MORRIS SCHAPPES, 97, Jewish and Marxist author and scholar; in New York City. As a professor at the City College of New York, he was fired in 1941 with almost 50 other communist sympathizers and convicted of perjury after telling a panel he knew of only three communists at the school, two of them dead. After serving 13 months in prison, he became an editor at Jewish Currents, a left-leaning magazine for secular Jews, for four decades...
...well as the drug-trafficking charges. But after Castaño's apparent elimination, says U.S. ambassador to Colombia William Wood, AUC members have "lost their disguise. Their character as narcoterrorists has been revealed." The AUC started out two decades ago as a right-wing counter to Colombia's Marxist guerrillas, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. But after the 1993 death of Medellín boss Pablo Escobar, Colombia's drug cartels broke up into less powerful organizations. That created the opportunity for the AUC and the FARC to become more deeply involved in Colombia's cocaine...
...suspects picked up last week were Islamists. Police in Turkey and four other European countries arrested 53 suspected members of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front, a Marxist group that has admitted to launching two suicide-bomb attacks in Istanbul since September 2001. Experts think al-Qaeda's successes may have inspired the group to try to launch more spectacular attacks...