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24 Oct 2023, 4:58 am
The historic city center, on the other hand, offers beautiful colonial architecture and lively streets, while the nearby Tayrona National Park provides an idyllic natural retreat. [read post]
1 Oct 2023, 9:30 pm
But through their visionary schemes and corrupt machinations, U.S. speculators and statesmen had spawned a distinctive and enduring form of settler colonialism: a financialized frontier, which transformed vast swaths of contested land into abstract commodities. [read post]
23 Sep 2023, 1:49 pm
Cuenca, Ecuador With mild weather year-round, beautiful colonial architecture, an affordable cost of living, modern infrastructure, and a low crime rate, it’s no wonder that American expats have made Cuenca the top spot to retire in the country. [read post]
22 Sep 2023, 11:07 am
Retiring in Montevideo, Uruguay Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, is a coastal city accessible by ferry from Buenos Aires. [read post]
20 Sep 2023, 4:21 am
The historic area contains a treasure trove of well-preserved colonial-era architecture, with a mix of British, Chinese, Indian, and Malay influences. [read post]
17 Sep 2023, 5:08 pm
Nkrumah was away on a peace mission in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. [read post]
17 Sep 2023, 1:01 am
He also was in favor of education reform, women’s rights, and opposed to capital punishment. [read post]
15 Sep 2023, 6:47 pm
But that will require listening carefully to the narratives of developing and post colonial states, not change them necessarily, but to use them as a basis for effective engagement consistent with the goals and principles of the G7 leading states. [read post]
14 Sep 2023, 6:51 am
It is directed instead to oppositional forces within those states and, more importantly, to the larger group of post-colonial and developing states that are always attentive to changes that might advantage them in their relationship with their former colonial masters or the orthodox hegemony (the terms of the relationship of which always appear ripe for renegotiation). [read post]
12 Sep 2023, 6:30 am
Less apparent is the way in which this also aligns with the core policies of Marxist Leninist and post-colonial developing states. [read post]
2 Sep 2023, 11:13 am
Cuba obtains its purported independence and a stabilizing measure of discursive space in which it can blame all of its problems on capitalism, foreign interference and the United States as the once and only evil hegemon of choice. [read post]
24 Aug 2023, 4:17 am
Retiring in Quito, Ecuador Those who prefer an urban lifestyle, meanwhile, should consider the capital city of Quito. [read post]
23 Aug 2023, 8:05 am
Also responding to the excesses of capitalism and its relationship to colonialism, the New International Economic Order (‘NIEO’) of the 1970s called for greater, binding accountability for transnational corporations. [read post]
22 Aug 2023, 7:34 pm
Some of them reflect now aging views of a post colonial era that is rapidly fading into (far more useful) myth (the South America and South African cases in particular is useful here), or as a platform for continuing to develop the idea of a replacement strategy for the current lineup of state based economics related leadership (the Chinese position). [read post]
22 Aug 2023, 12:16 pm
The first recorded execution in the new colonies was believed to be that of Captain George Kendall in the Jamestown colony of Virginia in 1608. [read post]
21 Aug 2023, 7:58 am
They include intragroup solidarity, which is defined as communities taking care of themselves and therefore portraying power in the community affected by social injustice, challenging dominant narratives; moral solidarity in which inhumane conditions that marginalized people cannot change or remedy on their own; civic solidarity in which people are taking action to address injustice that affects their neighbors; political solidarity where people are calling for dismantling structures that uphold… [read post]
21 Aug 2023, 7:58 am
They include intragroup solidarity, which is defined as communities taking care of themselves and therefore portraying power in the community affected by social injustice, challenging dominant narratives; moral solidarity in which inhumane conditions that marginalized people cannot change or remedy on their own; civic solidarity in which people are taking action to address injustice that affects their neighbors; political solidarity where people are calling for dismantling structures that uphold… [read post]
20 Aug 2023, 6:07 pm
Or, as people who are in the capital consuming fields like to refer to it (both euphemistically and to detach money from icky markets) resources. [read post]
13 Aug 2023, 8:02 am
Certainly the enemies of liberal democracy, and advocates of competing systems—including from the Marxist-Leninist and post-colonial camps have made much of this instability—drawing conclusions that suit their own agendas. [read post]
12 Aug 2023, 10:54 am
With some of the best museums in the world, one of the best international soccer teams, and a seemingly endless array of tapas bars to visit, it’s hard to get bored in this European capital. [read post]
