Word: populistic
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Argentina has danced the most difficult tango. Kirchner--whose wife Senator Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was elected to succeed him as President last month--took populist measures to keep the country of 40 million governable. He renationalized some utilities and set export limits on essential goods like meat to moderate prices. But rather than blow a windfall from commodity exports--prices for Argentine products like soybeans have hit all-time highs in recent years--Argentina replenished its foreign reserves (a record $44 billion today), pared debt and built a strong fiscal surplus. "Overspending and overindebtedness caused the crisis," says...
What on earth did she see in him? For the duration of her short-lived marriage of convenience to President Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto's friends and political rivals wondered how she, a populist democrat, could live with him, a military dictator. The mystery deepened when Musharraf declared a state of emergency and began a massive crackdown on democratic institutions--and Bhutto responded with only mild criticism, refusing to rule out a power-sharing arrangement with him. Some said her motivation was pure self-interest: she was that desperate to return to power. Others bought Bhutto's explanation that...
...force but gave up much of his commercial clout. The rhythmic complexities of his songs wove eerie aural patterns through which lyrics chased each other like phantoms from a surrealist serial. The music was simultaneously challenging and forbidding, and Gabriel was typed unfairly as an elitist working in a populist form. Biko began breaking this image down, and the So album has put it to rest forever. The process has received no little help from the raucous Sledgehammer video, which shows Gabriel in novel, self-mocking form, acting like a live-action cartoon surrounded by some nicely berserk animation...
...King of Spain were to tell them publicly to "shut up." But then, few heads of state are as skillful as Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez at turning a foreign diplomatic rebuke to domestic political advantage. Chávez's radical left-wing rule resides in his populist challenge to "imperialist" threats - and what more convenient symbol of colonial oppression for Chávez (besides his favorite, the U.S.) than the Spanish throne, which plundered South America for three centuries before it was thrown out in the 1800s by Venezuelan "Liberator" Simón Bolívar, the namesake...
...party. In exchange, Bhutto would have been cleared of as of yet unanswered corruption charges (which she claims were politically motivated), permitted to return after eight years in exile, and allowed to run for the office of Prime Minister, which many assume the populist leader would have easily clinched. Some Pakistanis see her as desperate to be free from those corruption charges. Others say she will do anything to regain power, even if it means making a deal with a dictator. The lack of a popular turnout at today's protests...