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More than 2000Rwanda
Big Gamble in Rwanda
New York Review of Books · Vol 54, # 5 · Mar 29, 2007
By Stephen Kinzer
After So Many Deaths, Too Many Births
New York Times · February 11, 2007
Rwanda, still haunted by genocide, faces up to the threat of overpopulation.
Turkey
Will Turkey Make It?
New York Review of Books · Vol 51, # 12 · July 15, 2004
Nine centuries after Pope Urban II sent the first Crusaders off to fight 'the Turk,' 321 years after the Ottoman army besieged Vienna, Turkey and Europe are approaching a historic encounter.Iran
Talks With Iran Could Benefit U.S.
Chicago Tribune · February 16, 2008 · PDF document
The United States and Iran are caught in a paradigm of hostility that has imprisoned both countries for nealy 30 years.US Intervention
Democracy Now: How to Overthrow a Government
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Iran and Guatemala, 1953-1954: Revisiting Cold War Coups and Finding Them Costly
New York Times ·November 30, 2003
Soon after the C.I.A. installed him as president of Guatemala in 1954, Col. Carlos Castillo Armas visited Washington. He was unusually forthright with Vice President Richard M. Nixon. ''Tell me what you want me to do,'' he said, ''and I will do it.''Nicaragua
Life Under the Ortegas
New York Review of Books · Vol 55, # 10 · Jun 12, 2008
During the 1970s, Dionisio Marenco was one of many young Nicaraguans who decided to risk their lives by joining the rebel Sandinista National Liberation Front. He helped rob a payroll office to finance the group, joined in planning spectacular commando raids, and narrowly escaped death in a firefight when he and a band of comrades stormed a police station in Managua. After the Sandinistas seized power in 1979, Marenco held several ministerial posts under President Daniel Ortega, and then became chief of the Sandinista propaganda department.
Downfall in Nicaragua
By Stephen Kinzer
New York Review of Books · Vol 50, # 12 · July 17, 2003
When Arnoldo Alemán took office as President of Nicaragua in 1997, he seemed ready to make history.