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Nicaraguan Contras

It's the Biggest Scandal Since...

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.23.2013 | Politics
Read More: Teapot Dome, Political Scandal, Lewinsky, Sherman Adams, Cia, Ronald Reagan, Warren Harding, Nicaraguan Contras, Capt. Renault, George W. Bush, Guns for Hostages, Chief of Staff, Celebrity Apprentice, Watergate. Iran-Contra, The White House, Casablanca, Talking Points, National Security, Benghazi, Richard Nixon, Irs, Associated Press, Lame Duck, Cnn, The West Wing, The AP, Billy Sol Estes, Valarie Plame, President Eisenhower, U.S. Grant, Shame-Tv, Lyndon Johnson, The President, The Washington Post, Whiskey Ring, Politics News
Tom Alderman

... fill in the blanks: Teapot Dome, Watergate, Iran Contra, Lewinsky... Benghazi? You may have noticed that every time one erupts, it's compared in heinousness to the last really big one.

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General Rios Montt of Guatemala: 'A Bum Rap?'

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.13.2013 | World
Read More: Human Rights, Guatemalan Court, Communism, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Rios Montt, Ronald Reagan, Central America, Nicaraguan Contras, John Negroponte, Sandinistas, Somoza, El Salvador, Guatemala, El Mozote Massacre, Montt Genocide Conviction, Genocide, Honduras, Nicaragua, World News
Joseph A. Palermo

Now that a Guatemalan court has convicted General Erfrain Rios Montt of "genocide" maybe we can better come to terms with the history of the early 1980s when the Reagan Administration was determined to vanquish communism in Central America.

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President Hugo Chavez and America's "Backyard"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.06.2013 | World
Read More: Hugo Chavez, Ronald Reagan, Cia, Latin America, Nicaraguan Contras, George Herbert Walker Bush, George W. Bush, Ari Fleischer, South America, Soviet Union, Condi Rice, Monroe Doctrine, El Salvador, President Hugo Chavez, Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, SOA Watch, Venezuela, Fidel Castro, School of the Americas, Chavez, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Venezuelan People, Manuel Zelaya, Bay of Pigs, World News
Joseph A. Palermo

Hugo Chavez defied this history of power relations in the hemisphere. And for that defiance elite voices will vilify him, but a far larger number of people will see him as a hero.

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