Word: venezuela
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Jeffrey Ron Gu ’00, a fun-loving champion of racial justice, died June 6 in a hiking accident in Venezuela, shortly before his 25th birthday...
Tragically, most of these slaughters are only visible in retrospect due to the opacity and isolation of these regimes during their rule. Thus, we should be watchful for contemporary states that are masking dangerous usurpations of political power, such as in Venezuela, Zimbabwe, China, Turkmenistan, Sudan and Mauritania, to name a few. Recent regimes in Uganda, Burundi and Indonesia have murdered hundreds of thousands of their own citizens...
...rejected her bid to stop the speaker of the South African parliament from reprimanding her for failing to disclose her financial interest in Soweto's Winnie Mandela Family Museum. Following the verdicts, Madikizela-Mandela said she would resign from all her public positions. Hell No, He Won't Go venezuela President Hugo Chávez's government refused to sign an agreement it had made with the opposition to hold a referendum that could force Chávez to resign. The Organization of American States brokered the agreement to end a two-month general strike organized...
...phenomenon, and for good reason. As the most affordable of the major professional sports, baseball-in-the-flesh is accessible to more stratums of society than, say, football. It’s also a melting pot, boasting an incredibly diverse array of players with the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Korea, Japan and, yes, Canada among the countries represented. There’s truly something for everyone at the ballpark and I’m not just talking about the availability of hotdogs, smartdogs and soydogs...
Maintaining democracies that are cooperative members of the world community is not always easy. The current situation in Venezuela proves that democratic leaders can quickly morph into tyrants, and abuse their own people. Battles can also erupt between people of various ethnic groups within a nation—a situation that the world witnessed most recently in the Balkans. Fundamentalist Islamic groups also may pose a grave challenge to the stability of a newly forged democracy, just as they now constantly challenge the legitimacy of Pakistan’s regime...