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Don’t Forget Pakistan’s Yugoslavian Syndrome
2007-11-11 22:15:00 by Dr. Ehsan Azari Pakistan is teetering on the edge of the most serious political crisis since the country’s creation in the late 1940s. The ruling generals have their hearts sinking in their boots. President, General Pervez Musharraf’s imposition of a state of emergency, was a last desperate move in order to renew secret deals with Islamic extremists, and to overturn the demands for democracy and civilian rule. At present Pakistan is very similar to Yugoslavia in the 1980s when the decadent communist ideology wasn’t enough to bind the country together. The ideology of Islamic extremism and the mullah-general rule structure is no longer working in Pakistan either. General Musharraf’s argument that his decision was made to better combat the surging Islamic extremism in his country, seems to fly in the face of truth and common sense. On the contrary, the de facto marshal law has been good news for the Taliban and Al-qaida who have always preferred dealing with generals than ...
OPW: ?To My Yugoslavian In-Laws?
2007-10-05 17:26:00 On today’s “Other People’s Words,” a poem about people, places, and distance. Debra Gingrich’s “To My Yugoslavian In-Laws” is about all that we have in common, and a few of the things we don’t. If we could speak, I would tell you that we have trees here too, and rivers. I know how to hammer a nail. Transatlantic phone calls are ...
"Who Killed Yugoslavia?"
2007-08-13 14:49:00 I'm working on a Balkan-related piece right now, which has led me to this:"I have no doubt that if Milosevic's parents had committed suicide before his birth rather than after, I would not be writing a cable about the death of Yugoslavia. Milosevic, more than anyone else, is its gravedigger.
Western leaders are no more than witnesses at Yugoslavia's funeral." --Ambassador Zimmerman, recalled to Washington May 16, 1992.Zimmerman's urgency about the genocide, along with other low and mid-level staffers, went unacknowledged by the State Department.
Los mariachis y el folclor mexicano de Yugoslavia
2006-08-28 02:39:01 La cultura y el folclor mexicano es apreciado y reconocido en varios países. Algunos de ellos no tienen relación alguna con México, ni en usos ni costumbres ni en tradiciones. Pero es increíble ver cómo hay personas que adoptan a la cultura de México como si fuese propia. Y es que por lo regular se encuentran mexicanos en cualquier país, así sea en Europa o en África parece que siempre hay un habitante nacido en México. Un ejemplo curioso es Yugoslavia, esa ex-república situada en los Balcanes tiene intérpretes que se dedican a interpretar música de México, y no cualquier tipo de música, si no de la que está más arraigada en el país debido a su historia; se trata del género Ranchero, que ha tenido históricamente grandes exponentes como Pedro Infante, José Alfredo Jiménez, Antonio Aguilar, entre muchísimos otros. Anteriormente no se había visto incursión de personas extranjeras en este tipo de música, a excepción de Rocío Dúrcal, a quien la gente llegó a querer como si fuera Mexican...
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