Politics is a dirty game. We all know this catchy phrase, but people still go into politics to build a career despite this bad reputations they have for ruining peoples public image. The political arena is not a simple thing that someone can joke about despite their home grown career training, you need to be extravagant in your moves because the world is watching you and one single misstep could bring your downfall
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Cuba was not the only troubled island nation in Latin America in the 1960s. Many countries experienced a shift toward the political left and were disrupted by a series of coups and assassinations, one of these nations is the Dominican republic. The Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, assassinated in 1961, was succeeded by Juan Bosch, the first …
In 1986 the 30-year reign of the Duvalier family ended when “President for Life” Jean-Claude Duvalier was forced into exile. The people of Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, hoped that they would soon have a democratic government. The military regime that first took control of the government reluctantly allowed an election to …
The Puzzling policies of some small Caribbean Statesmen Read More »
Events in the last several decades have given rise to new political and social pressures in Latin American society. By the early 1990s, most of the countries of Latin America were moving toward constitutional government. Women are one emerging political force. The struggle for women’s right to vote began in Latin America around World War …
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During and just after World War II, the nations of the Western Hemisphere entered into several mutual pacts. Many political leaders viewed such pacts as necessary steps to contain communism. Inter-American cooperation went a step further in 1948, when delegates from the nations of the Western Hemisphere met at Bogota, Colombia, and founded the …
This amazing man passed away back in 2013 almost ten years ago. But his memory continues to linger on in the minds of millions of people whose lives he had touched. This man as we all know him by the Name Madiba did something no other person in the world had ever done before, and that is …
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If you are closely following the news , then you would know that recently, there has been an endless wave of kidnappings for ransom in Nigeria, the gangsters appear to have become bolder and attack more frequently than ever. What people are wondering is whether this recent behavior has something to do with the mentioning …
Introduction I hope I am not the only person who is baffled by this but I have noticed that The current Presidents of Russia and Ukraine have very similar first names, The Russian President is called Vladimirwhile the Ukrainian President is called Volodymyr. I see this is quite baffling because these are heads of states of …
For the last year and a half, people have been talking about a global chips shortage that is affecting manufacturing and production across many industries, what has caught everyone by surprise is that The United States of America, the most technologically advanced country in the world doesn’t have a single microchips factory. The world today …
World War I was an industrialized war. Industry produced weapons with the same efficient mass production methods that it had applied to other products. One of the most important new weapons of World War I was the machine gun. Its sweeping, rapid-fire spray of bullets was deadly and often made infantry advances terribly costly. To …
The deadly weapons that emerged in the first mechanized global conflict Read More »
Wars have been fought throughout history. What has determined the outcomes of these wars? One answer is the bravery-or cowardice-of the individual soldier. Another factor that determines the outcomes of these wars is the skill of the commander. The outcomes of battles and wars, however, have often been decided by the kinds of weapons …