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At the same time, political observers like Denise Maerker, a prominent columnist for the Mexico City daily El Universal, fear that provincial governments in places like Chiapas, where the weapons were found, are using 2010 fears as a pretext for cracking down on social activists. "They're drawing questionable links...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Mexico Is Anxious About Its Bicentennial | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

Either way, the drug cartels have already shown they're willing to use high-profile national celebrations as a stage for narco-terror. Last year, during Independence Day festivities in drug-infested Michoacan state, narcos killed seven people with fragmentation-grenade blasts. Mexicans were rattled again in September when bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Mexico Is Anxious About Its Bicentennial | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

Yap is part of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), an island nation in the western Pacific Ocean that was formerly part of a U.N. trust territory administered by the U.S. after World War II. Under an agreement signed in 1986, the islands were granted independence but citizens were given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Micronesian Paradise — for U.S. Military Recruiters | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

The paradoxical shifts in opinions provide a fitting close to what has been the most tumultuous year of the prime minister's political career. There were the public gaffes: calling President Obama "well-tanned"; getting scolded by the Queen after raising his voice at a London photo op; making German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Berlusconi Get His Game Face Back On? | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

And Berlusconi's judicial woes were reignited when Italy's highest court ruled unconstitutional the law he'd pushed through Parliament to grant himself immunity from prosecution while in office. The high-point of his leadership in 2009 - his prompt response to the tragic earthquake near the city of L...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Berlusconi Get His Game Face Back On? | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

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