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...master of the sound bite, explaining complex issues in 10-second phrases that lunch-pail Americans can understand. She became famous for searing one-liners against dictators like Saddam Hussein and corrupt Haitian generals. "You can leave voluntarily and soon or involuntarily and soon," she told the junta...
...teenager in 1936 Eva makes her first conquest, the troubadour Agustin Magaldi (Jimmy Nail), whom she accompanies to Buenos Aires, a glittering Hollywood of hope for Eva. Her gift for attracting men of position leads her to Juan Peron (Jonathan Pryce), a junta colonel who becomes Argentina's President in 1946. Eva's glamour--less a natural attribute than a triumph of her will--and her urge to help the poor humanize Peron's stolid majesty; they also come close to bankrupting the country, even as they drain her. She fulfills the rock-age hagiography: live big, die young...
Burma, a country of about 45 million between Thailand and India in southeast Asia, has been under military rule for the past 34 years. The present military junta, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), killed an estimated 10,000 nonviolent democracy demonstrators when it came to power in 1988. The SLORC has been repeatedly condemned by the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and Australia for its rampant human rights abuses and is widely considered one of the most oppressive regimes in the world...
...death-squad murders of some 40 political activists. With that, the sarcophagus of silence that had shielded top apartheid-era leaders finally cracked. The five officers, including a police brigadier who had commanded a hit-squad training camp, claimed they took orders from the State Security Council, a secret junta of military, police and government officials whose sweeping powers enabled it to bypass Parliament. The council was headed by Botha. The officers said Botha also knew about a secret security cell known as the Counter Revolutionary Information Center, which drew up lists of people and places to be attacked, both...
Some examples of ideological blinders at Harvard are even more disturbing. I have heard the CIA coup that replaced Guatemala's democratically-elected government with a despotic military junta in 1954--all for the benefit of U.S. business--described as an example of Cold War tensions. The U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965 is frequently discussed in the same manner. A teaching fellow for a class about economic development told me that he graded harshly a paper that I wrote about U.S. economic warfare against Nicaragua because I had not included a moral justification for such action. When...