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What is being said in media in other parts of the world is very different from what we’ve been told in this country throughout these years between September 11 and today.

Bianca Jagger

The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.
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Embargo Nicaragua Weakening
Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.
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States Terrorism Today
A taboo, attached to it…now we have more women infected with HIV/AIDS, many of those women were infected by their husbands who did not tell them
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Attacked Hiv Husband Infected Taboo Women
I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.
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Country Government Nicaragua
During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.
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Divorce Parent Years
There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?
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Government Justice People War
When I began my humanitarian work, I understood that in order to gain credibility I needed patience, commitment and unwavering perseverance. I needed to ignore the skeptics.
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Commitment Order Perseverance
I feel great identification with the developing world.
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Feels Identification World
Live interviews are more difficult to distort.
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Difficult Interview
People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.
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Ambition Men Powerful Seconds
The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That’s why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless.
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Believe Help Innocent People Voice Voiceless
President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas.
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Home Indicated Office Texas
There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the history of mankind. …
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Law Rights World
I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.
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Believe Genocide Ongoing
People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.
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Continue Country Doubt Leave Loss People
I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.
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Country Government Thinking

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