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James North
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James North has reported from Africa, Latin America, and Asia for four decades. He lives in New York City.
The mainstream media is right to criticize Zimbabwe’s former leader, but wrong to ignore his greatest challenges.
Ten years after the coup, they have become the largest single Central American nationality in the refugee caravans fleeing north.
Joseph Kabila’s hold on power has been buttressed by crooked investors from the wealthy nations.
“We saw right away that he was different. Andrés knows what the bite of an ant feels like.”
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Instead of recognizing neoliberalism’s failure, they attack the Mexican leader who has successfully indicted it.
Killing reporters here is only one element in a campaign of state terror.
Britain left behind two evil legacies when Zimbabwe gained independence: the harsh lesson that violence works, and a grotesquely unequal distribution of farmland.
They have immense leverage over Joseph Kabila’s repressive government.
“We will not pardon or forget.”
Citizens are enraged that his government enforced strict capital controls while he stashed his own money in the Caribbean.
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