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8、古巴改革逐渐启程
Forget the Chinese; they haven't been real communists for years, and North Korea's Kim Jong-Il is a pale shadow of his monstrously Stalinist father. The last of the Communist giants is Fidel Castro, who had retained his revolutionary charisma despite his tight grip on the reins of power in Cuba — even if the authentic glow of his combat fatigues has given way to the sort of gaudy tracksuits more common among the elderly in nearby Miami. After more than half-a-century of ultimate jefe-dom, an ailing Fidel in February suddenly relinquished the presidency to his younger brother Raul, whom many hope will be a moderate reformer, perhaps even opening a detente with the existential foe across the water. Although Fidel himself remains an influence — not least because he is still the leader of the ruling Communist Party — he is increasingly ill. The age of the revolutionary titan is over; the period of transition has begun. (Feb. 20)
9、哥伦比亚陆续有人质获救
Footage of her three years as a captive of the narco-Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) paint Ingrid Betancourt with a Modigliani melancholy, attenuated in appearance as well as loneliness. She had been a candidate for the country's presidency and then had become its most famous hostage, almost always on the brink of rescue. And then it happened in one of the most dramatic and uplifting events of the year, a military exercise that actually worked to perfection as Colombian security forces used an audacious disguise to trick her captors into handing her over. Betancourt has shown no sign of relinquishing the idealistic dreaminess that made her a less-than-viable political candidate, however, and that continues to make her a drawcard in the influential salons of Europe and the Americas. (July 2)
10、四川大地震缅甸强台风等自然灾害
December 2004, which claimed about 225,000 lives. The combined death toll was approximately the same in the cyclone that devastated Burma (the country that known, by its isolationist military regime, as "Myanmar") on May 2 and in the earthquakes that flattened schools and villages in Sichuan, China's most populous province. Cyclone Nargis killed perhaps 150,000; China says 87,000 died in the quake. The world then saw two authoritarian nations go about disaster relief in divergent ways: the isolationist Burmese junta trying to shut out help from the rest of the world; the Chinese, who were concerned about the Olympics and already coping with the public-relations disaster of Tibetan demonstrations, allowing foreigners in as well as relatively open media coverage of its catastophe. Cyclone in Burma (May 2); Earthquake in Sichuan.