Word: totalitarian
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...inter-Korean relations. "The core task," Lee said, "is to help all Koreans live happily and to prepare the foundation for unification" of the peninsula. But that, as everyone knows, is easier said than done. It is perfectly true that nothing lasts forever and that one day the totalitarian rule of Kim Jong Il in North Korea will end. Some analysts suspect he is in poor health, and he does not seem to have an obvious heir within his family. But it is also true that many in the South, with a very shrewd appreciation of the likely costs...
...instance, Castro’s regime is often credited with having overseen a low infant mortality rate, but it is important to keep in mind the unreliability of statistics produced by a totalitarian government which micromanages every aspect of society. In Cuba, anyone who questions the validity of this information pays a price. Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet was sentenced to 25 years in prison after revealing the government’s practice of chemically inducing abortions through the use of a drug Rivanol, which causes fetuses to come out dead or die within hours of birth. These abortions were systematically...
...hard to imagine that 90 miles from our shore, freedoms are alienable. In Cuba, the choice to dissent from the government has dire ramifications. Citizens are imprisoned for merely voicing an opinion. Prisoners of conscience are systematically tortured and often executed for not conforming to the constraints of the totalitarian state—just some of many blatant violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of which Cuba is a signor. Evidence of these abuses can be seen in the prison memoirs of Armando Valladares and countless other accounts by political prisoners. Valladares writes, “Freedom...
...Raul's Sunday strategy was clearly meant to tamp down reform expectations -which the younger Castro, who has nudged Cuba's moribund economy toward capitalism and encouraged more open debate about its totalitarian politics, may have felt were rising too quickly for him to meet in the wake of Fidel's exit. "Raul has to proceed cautiously," concedes Brian Latell, a Cuba expert at the University of Miami and author of After Fidel. "In the past 18 months he has elevated popular expectations. Now he has to manage them...
...Ruler locks her away in a house. Futilely attempting to control every aspect of her environment and believing himself powerful enough to even stop time itself, the Ruler freezes every clock in the house at the minute she dared broach the subject to him. But like all subjects under totalitarian regimes, she remains sovereign over her own spirit, and her refusal to repent is a silent but powerful protest. To the Ruler, “her tears had become the battleground of their wills.” With passages such as this, Thiong’o constructs a moving portrait...