Word: imperialistic
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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...
However, while Mexicans are normally pleased to celebrate any chance to hit back against the imperialist gringos, there was little popular applause for the latest measures. As the world economy is suffering, the Mexican peso has lost about 40% of its value against the dollar in the past four months. That means higher prices for just about any product imaginable in the supermarkets and stores of Mexico, which imported $151 billion worth of goods from its northern neighbor last year. The new tariffs mean the prices will go up even further. "This will hit poor people, whatever the government says...
...People’s Republic of China invaded and occupied the peaceful mountain nation of Tibet. For 58 years, the Communist regime in Beijing has waged a quiet war against the Tibetan people and their unique culture. Their clandestine methods follow the guidelines established by their imperialist predecessors: hide Tibet’s holy relics, erode traditional Tibetan practices, and fill the vacuum with Chinese culture. The evil genius behind the Chinese plan—and perhaps the only reason why the suppression of Tibet has not garnered much attention in the Western world—is that the Chinese...
...deems sensible in the Middle East and Asia would repeat Washington's careless habit of treating the continent in ways that helped give rise to the Castros and Chávezes in the first place. The best way to disarm Chávez is to give him fewer "imperialist" targets to rail at. As the anti-Bush, Obama has an advantage in that game, and he should use it. He'll find that thawing relations with Chávez before he goes to Trinidad will do a lot to break the ice with the rest of the hemisphere once...
...more a McCain sort of guy: blustery and passionate, valuing emotion over precision. But our President-elect certainly merits this year's lead Teddy Award, distributed to mark honorable behavior in the political arena. He deserves it for displaying a trait memorialized by Roosevelt's contemporary and fellow imperialist Rudyard Kipling: "If you can keep your head when all about you/ Are losing theirs .../ you'll be a Man, my son!" (See TIME's Person of the Year, People Who Mattered, and more...