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While the roots of the inter-American system go back to 1826, when Liberator Simón Bolivar called a meeting of eight nations in Panama to write a treaty for common defense and peaceful settlement of disputes among neighbors, the OAS dates its birth to the formation of the International Union of American Republics in 1890. Political family-hood, as Bolivar envisioned it, did not arrive until 1947, when a new generation of defense-minded Americans, meeting in Rio de Janeiro, drew up a treaty for mutual protection against aggression. In 1948 in Bogota, they agreed on a charter...
...ancient Athens and between-wars Germany have voted themselves into the hands of authoritarians, not a single nation has ever freely voted to turn itself over to Communism. "It is a terrible truth that it costs more strength to maintain freedom than to endure the weight of tyranny," wrote Simón Bolivar. That is probably still true. But times and attitudes have changed immeasurably, and it is possible that in a modernizing, prospering world, there ultimately will be more people with more strength to keep their countries safe for democracy...
Then the horsemen appeared. Sheriff Mac Sim Butler, with a cane in his hand, led the dozen riders into the intersection. At least two of the mounted men were state troopers; others were not in uniform...
...possemen charged the civil rights demonstrators, Lackey asked Montgomery County sheriff Mac Sim Butler to help him get a small crowd of the marchers back to the other side of the street where the bulk of the crowd was being contained. Whether from personal sadistic zeal, or sheriff's orders, the possemen went wild, and began to charge both groups of demonstrators...
...enforcement officials are also divided on tactics. On Tuesday T.H. Lackey, assistant chief of police, attempted to stop the horsemen of Sheriff Mac Sim Butler from beating and whipping civil rights workers. Since then, Lackey has told the sheriff that he doesn't want horses ever used again, stating, "personally, I don't feel like it [the violence] was necessary...