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...promotion. Likewise, Burrow makes a welcome exception for a memoir by Bernal Díaz, a humble foot soldier who arrived in Mexico with Cortés in 1519 and took part in toppling the Aztecs. Díaz looks back on those days in The Conquest of New Spain, a first-person account written as an old man living on a modest farm in Guatemala...
...time out-of-country extended and I traveled to France, Spain, and Morocco, I realized just how extraordinary the United States of America is. Freedom House, an NGO that analyzes countries’ comparative levels of freedom globally, correctly describes the USA as “free”—as a country in which citizens enjoy many political rights and civil liberties. We elect our own government. We have freedom of assembly, press, and speech. (We even, for the most part, have working toilets...
...While some foreign countries’ citizens enjoy a level of freedom similar to that in the United States, many are not so well-off. France and Spain are also, according to Freedom House, “free” countries, but Morocco is only “partly free” and China is “not free.” In Morocco, I learned that bars and coffee shops were “for men only” and that, as a woman, it was safer never to walk into one. I met Taiwanese women in Beijing...
...controls the hemisphere's largest oil reserves. He started the year seemingly at the height of power, taking office after a landslide reelection and with crude prices breaking records by the day. But in November, during one of Chavez's rants at a summit in Chile, the King of Spain publicly told him to "shut up." That rebuke was followed this month by another from Venezuelans, who in a constitutional referendum voted down his bid to deepen his "21st-century socialism" and eliminate presidential term limits. As a result, Chavez and his backers no doubt saw the FARC hostage release...
...this year's Frankfurt book fair to promise that his team "would continue to be an instrument for Catalan culture." But his activism, coupled with Catalonia's demands for increased autonomy, has provoked conflicts with political conservatives who view the team's cultural involvement as one more portent of Spain's disintegration. Tuesday's declaration was no exception. "Barcelona is a bilingual city, and the team should reflect that," says a spokesperson for the Catalan branch of the Popular Party, which has protested the decision." Laporta is trying to bring Catalonia into conflict with Spain...