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Blame the Spanish and their extremely limited pool of names. Who else would find a country with 5 mountain ranges (Mexico) and name them all the same chuffing thing.I'll admit it's a little confusing to have a "Dominica" and a "Dominican Republic" (which is what most Americans know far better due to much immigration and baseball)
It’s amusing to see Perdue try the United Fruit Playbook of how to overthrow a country, but he’s doing it in the 80s against an Anti-Communist Centre Right politician.This series of articles shows how easy it is to knock post-colonial governments down a new path if done early enough
"The guy who tried a coup went into sports", bloody hell.
This series of articles shows how easy it is to knock post-colonial governments down a new path if done early enough
Reminiscent of Jehovah's Witnesses in that dichotomy I suppose. Scientologists seem to be in more of a state of quantum superposition of being lol joke punchline and genuinely dangerous exploitative cult but as viewed by the same people at the same time.I do always find it interesting how Rastafarians are viewed in popular media as basically a joke religion for reggae fans, but were in the English-speaking Caribbean a disruptive and largely distrusted New Religious Movement.
I think with Scientology its because its clearly a scam to control the lives and assets of people, its hilariously treadbare and obvious but that makes the damage it does even more tragic.Reminiscent of Jehovah's Witnesses in that dichotomy I suppose. Scientologists seem to be in more of a state of quantum superposition of being lol joke punchline and genuinely dangerous exploitative cult but as viewed by the same people at the same time.