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...agency in 1947 "to correlate and evaluate intelligence." But the law included language allowing the agency to undertake "other functions and duties," a loophole through which thousands of covert operations have been launched around the globe. Some of these have grown into military operations--as in Afghanistan and Nicaragua in the 1980s--that amount to small wars...
Tangen said her life changed when she was diagnosed with salmonella poisoning while volunteering at an orphanage in Nicaragua in 1999 the summer after her sophomore year...
Katarina Runesson has spent half of her undergraduate career thousands of miles away from her college at the University of Eähjö in Sweden. The globe-trotting political science student has studied in Seoul, South Korea; Managua, Nicaragua; and, most recently, Hamburg, Germany. This fall, she’s capping off her world tour here in Cambridge as part of Harvard’s little-known Visiting Undergraduate Student (VUS) program...
...unable to expunge repetition from one interview to the next) on American atrocities from Vietnam (which, in his opinion, "began as a U.S. attack against South Vietnam, which was always the main target of the U.S. wars," - a statement that would have been news to Ho Chi Minh) to Nicaragua and Sudan, among others. Unlike Vidal, however, Chomsky is not concerned with the possibility of civil liberties in the U.S. being eroded in the aftermath of 9-11 ("I do not think it will lead to a long-term restriction of rights internally in any serious sense," he says...
...film, believing that “history was so important,” she wasn’t needed. But her appearance in the film is what really sets it apart, especially the way in which Rogers is able to film her interactions with the people of Nicaragua...