Harold Pinter: Nobel Lecture ‘Art, Truth & Politics,’ 2005
Stockholm, December 7, 2005
The British-Jewish playwright Harold Pinter (1930-2008) received ...
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Category Archives: Central America
A Brief History of U.S. Interventions, 1945 to 1999
Source: Z magazine , June 1999
By William Blum
The engine of American foreign policy has ...
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“Heirs of Sandino: The Nicaraguan Revolution and the U.S.-Nicaragua Solidarity Movement” by Héctor Perla Jr.
The 1979 triumph of the Sandinista Revolution and the Sandinista National Liberation Front's ...
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“Women’s Role in the Sandinista Revolution” by Kristina Stevens
"Nicaragua, accustomed to kidnappings, tortures, murders of its peasants, border patrols, ...
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Sandinista Revolution
Under the direction of the Somoza dynasty and the influence of the Central American Common ...
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The Ideology and Domestic Politics of the Sandinistas
Founding
In 1961, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de ...
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Sandinista (political and military organization, Nicaragua)
Sandinista, member of Sandinista National Liberation Front, Spanish Frente Sandinista de ...
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“Dictatorship in Latin America” by Marc Becker
It is a somewhat common refrain in Latin America that countries need the mano dura (strong ...
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Somoza family (Nicaraguan family)
The founder of the dynasty, Anastasio Somoza García (b. Feb. 1, 1896, San Marcos, ...
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Elliott Abrams (b.1948)
Elliott Abrams (born January 24, 1948) is a well known neoconservative American diplomat ...
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“Positive Changes for Andean Drug Policy” by Elyssa Pachico
Recent developments in Peru and Colombia are promising indicators that progressive drug policy ...
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Joint Statement of the Merida Initiative High-Level Consultative Group on Bilateral Cooperation Against Transnational Criminal Organizations
1. The Merida Initiative High-Level Consultative Group held its fourth meeting today, under ...
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The American Drug War
"War on Drugs" is a term commonly applied to a campaign of prohibition and foreign military ...
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Millennium Global Challenges No. 12. How can transnational organized crime networks be stopped from becoming more powerful and sophisticated global enterprises?
Although the world is waking up to the enormity of the threat of transnational organized crime ...
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Millennium Global Challenge No. 10. How can shared values and new security strategies reduce ethnic conflicts, terrorism, and the use of weapons of mass destruction?
Although the vast majority of the world is living in peace, half the world continues to be ...
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“The Geopolitical Context of ‘The War on Terror'” by Mark N. Katz
The “War on Terror” is not taking place in a void. Other geopolitical developments ...
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