Word: socialist
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...fact, the Bedouins wouldn't be much affected by sanctions. They are a self-contained economic unit, and throughout history have managed to maintain a substantial wealth in livestock. A more plausible explanation for the poverty is that Saddam's totalitarian government is attempting to run a socialist economic model: there is no reason, after all, for people to accumulate wealth if Saddam's government is going to take everything from them...
...petitioned successfully to be transferred. But in 1999, according to his family, he was forced to go back to Andoain, to be subjected anew to threatening letters, graffiti, and to two of his cars being burned. "My brother knew he was going to die," says Maite, a former Socialist member of the Basque parliament. "His torture was permanent." So, it might be said, is that of the Basque country. ETA has killed 800 people since 1968; another two dozen were killed in the mid-1980s by the shady, Spanish-government-linked death squads of GAL (Anti-Terrorist Liberation Groups...
...which oversees Latin America's largest economy and the world's tenth-largest - work. If he can make that happen, he'll achieve something even more remarkable: a leftist Latin American government that works. Lula, 57, is pursuing his own, more poverty-focused version of the Third Way, the socialist-capitalist hybrid once touted by European leaders like British Prime Minister Tony Blair. His ultimate goal is to improve the lives of the poor as well as the rich - something the free-market reforms that swept Latin America in the 1990s failed to do - and he's betting that fiscal...
...says one Lula friend, "he's more cautious about not flaming out and screwing up" like so many Latin lefties before him. In a closed-door meeting last month, Lula warned regional PT leaders, "We can't fail in this economic situation." Lula realizes that an erstwhile socialist has to work that much harder to prove he's a market-friendly President. Revenue gaps recently forced Palocci to slash $4 billion from the $75 billion budget (Brazil's most austere in a decade), while Meirelles raised interest rates 4.5 points to 26.5% in hopes of keeping 2003 inflation to single...
...Zimbabwe spirals into despair in an unsuccessful attempt to defy the laws of economic gravity, indulging socialist impulses towards property seizure, fixed currency and price controls. These policies are labeled “social rights” for the poor—policies which include making basic items like bread, sugar and oil more affordable, and redistribution of wealth and property according to rules of “justice.” Like other foes of globalization, the regime aims to curb “runaway market forces” which are waging an “assault...