Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, foreign policy analysts have struggled to find a term to characterize the epoch we now inhabit. I propose a term that captures the defining characteristics of the current period: the Post-Abundance Era. 
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Dec. 16, 2006
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Charged with possessing deadly weapons, Santiago Alvarez of Florida plea-bargained, dodged a potential 50-year sentence, and now goes to jail for four years. Alvarez, like some other right-wing Cuban Americans, has paid for, organized and carried out deadly attacks against Cuba.
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“Shameful!” That summarizes reactions — in Iran and around the world — to the Tehran-hosted conference debating whether the Holocaust happened or not. Iran’s Jewish community called it a “huge insult.” Iranian student protesters called it “shameful” and many “ordinary Iranians were embarrassed,” news reports said.
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The death of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, criminal dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990, aroused mixed feelings among human rights defenders. While rejoicing that this incredibly evil person is gone from this Earth, they also wanted this mass murderer tried and convicted in a Chilean court.
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CARACAS — Cuando, el 3 de diciembre, el presidente venezolano Hugo Chávez le ganó a su oponente que tenía el apoyo estadounidense para ganar un segundo mandato de seis años un grupo de activistas de Estados Unidos estuvo ahí.
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Las acciones de partidos de gobiernos en varios países de América Latina confirman el deseo de los países del hemisferio occidental que Puerto Rico sea libre y soberano.
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Nuestro Mundo tuvo la oportunidad de entrevistar a Martina Cruz, miembro del Comité Escolar de Lawrence, Massachusetts. Cruz formaba parte de una delegación de oficiales públicos latinos de Estados Unidos que fueron a Venezuela para monitorear el proceso electoral.
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FUERTE BENNING, Georgia — Más de 22.000 personas de todo Estados Unidos y Canadá, la mitad de estos jóvenes, se manifestaron del 17 al 19 de noviembre a favor del cierre de la Escuela de las Américas (SOA, por sus siglas en inglés) del departamento de Defensa, y por la justicia para Latinoamérica.
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Just prior to the invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration sent out the word, which was echoed by most of the media, that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction: nuclear bombs, anthrax and poison gas. They ranted and raved that Iraq was a threat to the United States.
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Many urgent opportunities for action vie for attention on the eve of International Human Rights Day, Dec. 10. Besides speedily ending the Iraq war, two areas where the new Congress can make major progress are passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, and ending the Bush administration’s vile treatment of post-Sept. 11 detainees.
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