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...coup, Pierre Buyoya, said that was exactly what he was doing. "The change is not a classic coup," the Tutsi major said at a news conference Friday. "It is an action to save a people in distress and stop repeated massacres and killing all over the country." The overthrown president, Sylvestre Nitibantunganya, remains in the U.S. ambassador's home and maintains that he is still the leader of Burundi. Ironically, Buyoya was responsible for Burundi's first free elections in 1993. At the same time, he has a history of interfering with the presidencies of others. (After helping overthrow...
When one-year-old Gloria Maria Fajardo and her family left Cuba for America, Cuba never really left them. Gloria's father, Jose Manuel, had been a motorcycle escort for the wife of Cuban ruler Fulgencio Batista, so when the President was overthrown by Fidel Castro in 1958, the Fajardo family fled Havana on a $21 round-trip flight. But once in the U.S., Jose Manuel became restless, itinerant, dreaming of Cuba. He participated in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and was thrown into a Cuban prison. Released after two years, he later went to Vietnam with...
Nixon and Kissinger made no secret of their dislike of the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile. Through economic pressure and CIA activities, this government was overthrown, and the right-wing dictator, Pinochet, was brought to power. Thousands of students, intellectuals, union organizers and, in general, people who tried to help the poor were arrested, tortured and killed. Watergate, which receives nearly all the publicity, is really a small incident in comparison to these events...
...course, we would have loved to see Saddam overthrown by his own people for the death and destruction he had brought down on them. But that did not happen. And President Bush's demonizing of Saddam as the devil incarnate did not help the public understand why he was allowed to stay in power. It is naive, however, to think that if Saddam had fallen, he would necessarily have been replaced by a Jeffersonian in some sort of desert democracy where people read the Federalist papers along with the Koran. Quite possibly, we would have wound up with a Saddam...
...terrorism, Saddam no longer inspires fear in his neighbors. King Hussein of Jordan supported Iraq during the Gulf War, and Jordan has been Iraq's only outlet to the outside world during the years of the embargo. Now King Hussein shelters the defectors and hints that Saddam should be overthrown...