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When international newspapers picked up the comments the Elysée went into spin mode, denying the most offensive quips, particularly those about Obama. But parliamentarians party to Wednesday's dissing included members from France's opposition Socialist Party, who had no qualms about confirming Sarkozy's comments - and at times add detail to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarkozy's Comments on Leaders Draw Shock, Denial | 4/18/2009 | See Source »

Hugo Chávez owned the last Summit of the Americas, in 2005. Thanks to rising oil prices, the Venezuelan President, who controls the hemisphere's largest crude reserves, suddenly had the petro-wherewithal to spread his gospel of a more socialist Latin America free of Washington's imperialist interference. At that summit, in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Chávez led large and raucous demonstrations against President George W. Bush and U.S. plans for a hemispheric free-trade pact, which effectively died at the gathering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americas Summit: Will Chávez Steal the Show Again? | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...opposition insists Morales wants to create an authoritarian socialist state in Bolivia. At the same time, anti-indigenous racism is widespread in Bolivia's east. Right-wing opposition groups were responsible for violent attacks on indigenous citizens last year before January's constitutional referendum, which gave Bolivia's majority indigenous more political power but had many worried that Santa Cruz and other resource-rich eastern provinces might try to secede from the poorer highlands, where the capital, La Paz, is located. Morales himself went on a five-day hunger strike last week to get Bolivia's Congress to pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Plot to Kill Bolivia's Leftist President? | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

There is a lot more oil and gas where that came from, if Beijing can bring itself to depend on Moscow as a supplier. The two former communist powers have never trusted each other, but new capitalist economics trumps old socialist enmity. Russia needs money, and China has $1 trillion sitting in corporate coffers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buying Binge | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...dramatically reform its health care system by expanding coverage for hundreds of millions of farmers, migrant workers and city residents. To fix a system plagued by rising costs and diminishing access, the country is moving away from the market reforms introduced in the 1980s and returning to a more socialist health care system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's New Healthcare Could Cover Millions More | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

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