Recent rhetoric about " Yankee imperialism " aside, Havana insists that it wants to restore diplomatic relations with Washington severed at the height of the Cold War, and wants an end to the four-decade U . S . trade embargo against the island nation.
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They fear that by accepting an American handout, Mexico will be saddled with additional foreign debt and relinquish independence to the United States-- always a touchy subject in a country where the battle against " Yankee imperialism " has long been a mantra of self-identity.
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Whatever the winds of change blowing around the world, the FARC's platform remains largely the same as when it broke from the Colombian Communist Party to make war on the state in 1964, with the group still demanding a radical redistribution of land and wealth and a foreign policy that is independent of Yankee imperialism.
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Inspired by " The Blue Bouquet, " a brief, perfectly coherent literary fragment by Octavio Paz, " Eyes for Consuela " is a goofy though not funny meditation on a number of random subjects : marriage, Yankee imperialism, the macho male, the inability to love and those of us who have eyes but see not.
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Lyons contends that " top-shelf party bureaucrats " undermined the grass roots organization of the unemployed by foisting Third Period slogans upon them such as " Down with Yankee Imperialism ! " and " For a Soviet America ! " Herbert Benjamin was installed as Secretary-Treasurer of the new organization, solidifying Communist control, and Lasser himself abandoned the Socialist Party for the Communists following a visit to Moscow, Lyons indicates.
