In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.
BIANCA JAGGERI often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.
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I don’t need an overpowering, powerful, rich man to feel secure. I’d much rather have a man who is there for me, who really loves me, who is growing, who is real.
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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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I feel great identification with the developing world.
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I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.
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I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.
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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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Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.
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I am not just a celebrity, I’m a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.
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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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I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.
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I believe President Bush is one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. He is not in search of peaceful and diplomatic solutions.
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The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
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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.
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Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn’t just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.
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Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war.
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