Sublime

“It’s been less than a year since she received control from the advisors that ruled in her stead during her childhood. She had that power for weeks before she started getting tyrannical.”

Now, in a totalitarian move I suspect the Chinese leadership would admire, as a result of dissent in other areas, I am being installed to run it, against my will. A test of loyalty to the regime.

Under his anger, I can tell Mark’s genuinely hurt. I think he likes and respects Obama. He’s also completely unused to frank criticism from anyone more powerful than him. There are so few who fit that description anyway.

Trinidad Oliva era un hombre que picaba alto. Se sentía injustamente postergado por el gobierno. Había estado preso en tiempos de Jacobo Árbenz por conspirar contra el régimen y no tenía la menor simpatía por Castillo Armas, de modo que podía ser una pieza clave para el proyecto.

Men who would kill on his orders were useful. Men who refused were a threat.

Por órdenes de Trujillo, aquél le había encargado que liquidara a uno de ellos, Tancredo Martínez, antiguo cónsul dominicano en Miami, quien se fugó a México y pidió asilo. Bonachea León lo había hecho muy mal; fue a buscarlo a la compañía de seguros donde trabajaba y le disparó un balazo en la cara; se la destrozó pero no lo mató. Por eso había

Nero granted Pallas the concession that the books would not be audited, so that he was allowed to keep the riches he had acquired in office, but in political terms, he was gone. 19 Pallas was later put on trial, along with Burrus, for conspiracy; he was acquitted, but his name was further blackened (Tacitus 13.23). Agrippina retaliated at the loss