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John Freitas
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Ukrainian Soviet Republic in 1954 after Nikita Khrushchev, who was from Ukraine, succeeded the late Josef Stalin as Soviet leader.
Medea Benjamin • War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict
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Czarina Roque
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As to invoking the justice of Rome against his acts of violence or his crimes, the provincials could not do this unless they could find a Roman citizen who would act as their patron,631 for, as to themselves, they had no right to demand the protection of the laws of the city, or to appeal to its courts.
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges • The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome (Illustrated)
Under the appointed mainland officials served elected Puerto Rican ones, less powerful but much cannier about local affairs. Chief among these was Luis Muñoz Marín, the leader of the island’s dominant party, who towered over the political scene from the 1940s through the 1960s. John Gunther deemed him “the most important living Puerto Rican.”
Daniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
María Cristina, nacida en 1915, pertenecía a una de las llamadas «catorce familias» de El Salvador; había estudiado en los Estados Unidos, en el Notre Dame de Namur College, en Belmont, California, hablaba inglés y francés, y habría seguido una carrera universitaria si se lo hubieran permitido, pero no la dejaron, pues, según los prejuicios de la
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