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Sandinista speeches also began to take on a decidedly paranoiac tinge, helped along, in part, by U.S. naval maneuvers last October off the nearby Honduran coast. When Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega warned that the country's enemies "will be hanging along the roads and highways" in the event of a U.S. invasion, COSEP leaders reacted. In an open letter, they charged that "the national economy shows no signs of recuperation, social peace has not been found, the country finds itself in spiraling debt, with no foreseeable end." The directorate thereupon threw four COSEP leaders in jail, along with...
When Defense Minister Humberto Ortega warned that the government's enemies "will be hanging along the roads and highways of the country," COSEP circulated copies of his speech to foreign journalists, then decided the time had come to act. In an open letter to the government, business leaders charged that "the national economy shows no signs of recuperation, social peace has not been found, the country finds itself in spiraling debt, with no foreseeable...
Last week the Sandinistas defended the arrests of the COSEP leaders. Daniel Ortega, a junta member, went on television to claim that the revolution was under grave attack and that the government would first defend the country's workers, farmers and the poor. Said Ortega: "We are at the door of destruction in Nicaragua. We are arriving at a point of no return from which the government of national reconstruction will have difficulty regaining its legitimacy in the eyes of the people...
...right. The collective efforts of the constructivists Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Tallin and the rest were only possible, one may surmise, because they did not realize how totalitarian Leninism actually was. Oligarchs, whether collective or single, dislike the very idea of avant-garde art because it creates new elites. As Ortega y Gasset remarked, its first effect is to divide; it splits the audience into those who understand it and those who do not. This cleavage does not necessarily run along political lines, and so it may not conform to the existing layers of power. The art of exception stands...
Rifkin's treatment of history best illustrates the deficiencies of a book to which any reader alienated by modern society would gravitate to as an answer to his problems. In one tidy half-page paragraph, Rifkin summarizes the historical theories of Toynbee, Spengler, Ortega y Gasset and Marx, allocating each scholar one sentence in this day of scarce resources. His next paragraphy begins...