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Commentary Landau: THE PINOCHET CASE: LEGAL COURAGE; POLITICAL COWARDICE

Commentary, March, 09 2001 Saul Landau
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It finally happened. On January 29, Judge Juan Guzman Tapia charged Geralissimo Augusto Pinochet, former dictator, President, chief of the armed forces, with 75 counts of murder and kidnapping. Five years ago, even most optimists had abandoned hop...

Commentary Landau: FIDEL AND THE REVOLUTION, FORTY YEARS LATER

Commentary, January, 06 2001 Saul Landau
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On January 2, 1959, Habaneros filled the streets to greet the small band of long-haired, guerrilla warriors. The hated dictator, Fulgencio Batista, had fled to Florida, with his entourage. But what would the new government do? Everyone knew the re...

Commentary Landau: THE PRIZZI BUSHES WILL OCCUPY THE WHITE HOUSE

Commentary, December, 15 2000 Saul Landau
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Maureen Down has cleverly labeled them the Kennebunkport Corrleones. But I Êthink of the Bushes as the Texas Prizzis, that Mafia branch that has moved Êto cowboy country and have successfully filched the 2000 election. Recall Êin Prizzi's Honor ho...

Commentary Landau: Haitian and Cuban Refugees

Commentary, October, 30 2000 Saul Landau
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Over the last two months, smugglers routinely drop Haitians and Cubans off the South Florida coast. US authorities arrest these presumably "illegal" immigrants and haul them off to Krome detention center. All the Haitians then await hearings for d...

Commentary Landau: Pinochet naked -- at last!

Commentary, September, 09 2000 Saul Landau
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Picture Homer Simpson's boss, naked, a scrawny figure bent with age, covering his genitals with his general's hat. The caption: "You've stripped me, but don't take my hat!" Augusto Pinochet, former President, Generalissimo, King of the world, now ...

Commentary Landau: THE DRUG WAR IS AS AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE AND COCAINE

Commentary, August, 10 2000 Saul Landau
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One of my friends mocks the drug war and sneers at President Clinton's request that Congress fund a new $1.2 billion military aid package for Colombia, so the Colombian military can better engage the iniquitous narco-traffickers. "You don't unders...

Commentary Landau: THE 47TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIDEL'S ATTACK ON MONCADA

Commentary, July, 26 2000 Saul Landau
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July 26, 1953. Fidel Castro leads 158 men to attack Fort Moncada, in Santiago de Cuba, the island's second largest military installation. Flashback. 1860. John Brown's raiders hit Harper's Ferry. Brown, like Castro, lost the battle. Both of these ...

Commentary Landau: WATCH OUT FOR THE FOX IN THE MEXICAN HEN HOUSE

Commentary, July, 12 2000 Saul Landau
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US pundits and government figures gush over Vicente Fox's victory last Week as if Mexicans had elected Abraham Lincoln's reincarnation as their new president. Fox represents the right of center PAN, National Action Party. He stands for NAFTA, corp...

Commentary Landau: "POOR PINOCHET"-- AN UPDATE ON THE TRIALS OF THE TYRANT

Commentary, June, 10 2000 Saul Landau
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The Santiago Appeals Court apparently voted 13-9 to revoke General Augusto Pinochet's parliamentary immunity. This makes Pinochet vulnerable to prosecution in Chile for allegedly ordering his subordinates to carry out a mass murder campaign - whic...

Commentary Landau: McCaffery (Goliath) v. Hersh (David)

Commentary, May, 21 2000 Saul Landau
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I found the May 15 NPR news very even-handed - as always. The host interviewed Seymour Hersh, who wrote for the May 22 New Yorker Overwhelming Force, an expose on General Barry McCaffery's Gulf War conduct. Hersh interviewed soldiers and officers ...

Commentary Landau: REPORT FROM SANTIAGO: DEJA VU

Commentary, May, 08 2000 Saul Landau
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History repeats itself, wrote Marx, first as tragedy and then again as farce. First time: Chile, November, 1970. In one photo, a helmeted officer just to the right of and behind Allende's car wears a bored, or maybe slightly pained, expression. Ge...

Commentary Landau: Elian's Miami Family May Be Drunk Drivers And Criminals, But They Love Him And Believe In Freedom

Commentary, February, 18 2000 Saul Landau
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Since last December, Eli‡n Gonzalez, the 6-year-old Cuban refugee boy, has become for those who love gossip about the living what Jon Benet Ramsey was for the morbid Enquirer readers. Who killed Jon Benet remains a police issue.

Commentary Landau: Contradictory Cuba Policies

Commentary, January, 25 2000 Saul Landau
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Explain US-Cuba policy, my friends ask. Last week's prison riot occurred in Louisiana where Cuban prisoners had served their sentences, yet remained locked up because they didn't qualify to stay in the US. They had committed crimes before gaining ...

Commentary Landau: Two from Saul LandauÉChina/Cuba

Commentary, December, 14 1999 Saul Landau
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Some weeks back, President Clinton accomplished a goal that President William McKinley had sought a century ago. Yes, Chinese officials now welcome U S economic penetration.

Commentary Landau: Two from Saul Landau…China/Cuba

Commentary, December, 14 1999 Saul Landau
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Some weeks back, President Clinton accomplished a goal that President William McKinley had sought a century ago. Yes, Chinese officials now welcome U S economic penetration.

Commentary Landau: The Old Populist Gag

Commentary, November, 18 1999 Saul Landau
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Exciting! Pat Buchanan, presidential candidate, opposes corporate globalization which, he claims, benefits a handful of multi national giants and leaves crumbs for the poor. Buchanan says he stands for elementary justice for working people. He bla...

Commentary Landau: More Nuclear Disasters

Commentary, November, 08 1999 Saul Landau
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"We have contained the spread of radiation from last week's nuclear accident," Japanese authorities assured their citizens. They blame the chain reaction on improper handling of materials by low level workers.

Commentary Landau: Will it Be NATO or the UN

Commentary, October, 28 1999 Saul Landau
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Who should lead the world toward peace in the 21st Century? NATO or the UN.

Commentary Landau: The Pinochet Decision

Commentary, October, 09 1999 Saul Landau
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This week, a British magistrate will decide whether to extradite Augusto Pinochet to Spain or release him. England has detained the former Chilean dictator for eleven plus months. In that time, his case has brought to world attention the principal...

Commentary Landau: The APEC Meeting

Commentary, September, 27 1999 Saul Landau
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I just returned from New Zealand, the host of the APEC and anti-APEC conferences over last week. Until Indonesian army thugs started their violent cleansing in East Timor, New Zealand wits had called the Asian Pacific economic cooperation group Al...

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