Word: leftist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while the case is not open and shut, "events point to Papandreou." The PASOK members on the commission had a different assessment. They issued a minority report saying the evidence was insufficient and "fabricated." Papandreou denounced the charges as a "settling of personal and political accounts" by the conservative-leftist coalition government that took office in July...
...would be simply unbelievable. Yet an almost precisely equivalent list of crimes has been committed in Colombia over the past nine years. Since 1980, assassins have gunned down 178 judges; eleven of the 24 members of the Supreme Court died in a 1986 shoot-out between the army and leftist guerrillas thought to have been paid by the drug barons. Also hit were two successive Justice Ministers (one survived), an Attorney General, the police chief of the nation's second largest city, Medellin, and the editor of the newspaper El Espectador in the capital city of Bogota. The drug lords...
Throughout these first years of the Third Reich, Hitler imposed a process that the Nazis called Gleichschaltung, which means standardization or making things the same. All political parties except the Nazis were banned as divisive. Leftist union leaders were arrested and replaced by Nazis preaching the harmonious unity of the working classes (strikes were banned). Joseph Goebbels, the Propaganda Minister, rallied students to a vast bonfire outside the University of Berlin, where the works of illustrious liberals (Emile Zola) and Jews (Heinrich Heine) were consigned to the flames. Jews were barred from public office, the civil service and professions like...
...sure I would agree with that adjective "leftist" attached to Cardenas or to what he represents in Mexico. I think "leftist" has a connotation in the U.S.: Communism, or anti-Americanism, which is not applicable to Cardenas. I would call Cardenas a left-of-center nationalist alternative to the present system. Does he represent a threat to the U.S.? I don't think so. I think most people in Mexico understand, as they have understood for years now, beginning with Cardenas' father ((President Lazaro Cardenas)) 50 years ago, that Mexico has to get along with the U.S. No government...
...accord provided a heady moment for Barco, who is negotiating cease-fires with two other leftist rebel groups. A fourth group, the Cuba-trained National Liberation Army (ELN), remains recalcitrant. But Barco's government has accepted the resignation of a Cabinet minister, one of the ELN's conditions for talks...