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...that terrorized Chile in the wake of his 1973, U.S.-backed military coup. His passing comes near the end of a year in which the leftist political forces he worked so violently to expunge have swept back into power in presidential elections all over Latin America - including Chile, where socialist Michele Bachelet now rules. As a result, pundits from Mexico City to Buenos Aires are sure to remark in their obituaries that the left wouldn't be enjoying such resilient support in the region if it were not for the reactionary excesses of figures like Pinochet that pockmark Latin American...
...Daniel wrote about the recent dissolution of the Soviet Socialist Republics,” Seward wrote in an e-mail. “The piece probably could have run in the Economist with minor editing to correct for the spelling of Gorbachev...
...expected. Watson, who is now 78, began his short talk by reminiscing about the illustrator of the class’s textbook, “Molecular Biology of the Gene,” which he authored. According to Watson, the illustrator was “an old-fashioned socialist,” whereas Watson described himself as a Democrat, “but sort of in the Lou Dobbs camp. I just think there should be a wall, that our country shouldn’t speak Spanish.” Next, discussing evolutionary bases of cultural diversity, Watson spoke about...
...social programs as well as to bolster a regional united front against U.S. influence. Now, the scale of his victory - the National Electoral Council gave him a 23% lead over contender Manuel Rosales with over three-quarters of votes counted - will be claimed as a mandate to deepen his "socialist revolution," with the help of a legislature wholly under the control of his allies after the opposition boycotted last year's parliamentary elections...
...first time Chavez has boisterously threatened further radicalization of his revolution, and Venezuela is still far from the Latin American Marxist nightmare that Washington fears it will become. Chavez has certainly cracked down on foreign oil companies and expropriated private property, but he still presides over a far-from-socialist society that loves its Scotch whisky and shopping malls...