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    • Fidel Castro retires

      Posted by okami from Reuters

      Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Tuesday that he will not return to lead the country as president or commander-in-chief, retiring as head of state 49 years after he seized power in an armed revolution.

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    • Pinochet Took His Crimes To The Grave

      Posted by Orato

      General Augusto Pinochet, who polarised Chile during his repressive 17-year rule from 1973-1990 when more than 3,000 people were killed in political violence, died on Sunday after suffering a heart attack a week earlier. He was 91.

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      Cheney behind turn toward dictatorship

      Posted by j1o2n3a4s5 from Times Union

      That the United States, once looked upon as the world’s greatest democracy, is now ruled by a presidential dictatorship is a concept we are still coming to terms with. In fact, some would even go so far as to say it was now beyond any serious dispute. Indeed, except for a bare majority in the Supreme Court rejecting the administrations penchant for military tribunals. The nation’s political establishment seems to have accepted this revolutionary system with “remarkable docility”, even as its misdeeds are further exposed week by week.

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    okami comments on:

    Fidel Castro retires

    it’s quite possible. . .after all, we’ve been doing it to most of Central America since 1900. . .

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    3:34 am 2/19/08
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    theangryindian comments on:

    Fidel Castro retires

    The end of an era. Expect Cuba to be assaulted by the U.S. until they bend to its will.

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    3:17 am 2/19/08
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