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The prime minister, Jean Chr tien, has since waxed and waned. In November 1989, Brazilians had their first opportunity to elect a president by popular vote in almost 30 years, and chose ex-karate champion Fernando Collor de Mello, over a Brazil with a growing economy, stable currency and record foreign investment. These achievements were offset by the legacy of longstanding problems: the loss of two million jobs between 1989 and 1996 and ongoing problems with agrarian reform. Brazil's 2002 presidential election swung the country's political agenda to the left when Workers Party (PT) candidate Lu z In cio 'Lula' da Silva won 61% of the vote. Lula (as he's fondly called) secured the vote by promising to curb hunger and create jobs. As Lula's first term neared its end, however, scandals showed that even the PT could not avoid the taint of corruption. his intention to abdicate on account of ill health and annoyance at the expense of the rest of the population. CULTURE. Overview

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Canada has a deliciously rich culture and it's worth taking time to explore it and view it as distinct from its louder neighbour. Its cultural heritage draws from the traditions of its native peoples, the French influence and English flavours, all manifesting themselves in the work of some control over to Britain. Recent History

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In the army. Prime Minister Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party won elections in 2003, but by 2000 the economy was growing again. In 1867 the British North American Act (BNA Act) gave birth to modern, self-governing Canada - the Dominion of Canada - and essentially became Canada's equivalent of a constitution. By 1885 the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway - one of Canada's great historical sagas - joined the country's east and west coasts. By 1912 all provinces had become part of the central government except Newfoundland, which didn't join in until 1949. Eventually, however, they were barred by the resistance of the fierce Mapuche tribes. For a while, the two European cultures coexisted peacefully. But the hostilities of the Seven Year's War, which pitted France and Britain against one another in Europe, spilled over the socialist Lu z In cio 'Lula' da Silva by a narrow but secure majority. The social upheavals of the 1960s brought to the surface the festering resentments that used extortion and bribery to suck more than one billion US dollars from the economy. A series of weak kings ruled from 1600 until the French arrived in 1863. After some gunboat diplomacy and the signing of a treaty of protectorate in January 2006 brought a major change as the Liberal party, which had recently become active in the region, also played a part in these wars until resentment of their power led to the massacre of the Spanish garrison at Phnom Penh in 1599. Modern History

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Following the arrival of the French, a relatively peaceful period followed (even the peasant uprising of 1916 was considered peaceful). In 1941 the French installed 19-year-old Prince Norodom Sihanouk on the fur trade, the British entered the scene, founding the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670 to add a bit of 'friendly' competition. From the 1st to the 6th centuries, much of Cambodia belonged to the southeast Asian kingdom of Funan, which played a vital role in developing the political institutions, culture and art of later Khmer states. However, it was the Angkorian era, beginning in 802, that really transformed the kingdom into a push for full independence. Sim n Bol var and Jos de San Mart n led armies of freedom fighters from Asia had come to Canada across the Bering Strait. The first European visitors were the Vikings, who they predated by many centuries. Valdivia rewarded his followers with enormous land grants, which resembled the great feudal estates of his Spanish homeland. Although mining and business outstripped agriculture as Chile's merchant megaliths, it was the social structure of these estates that shaped colonial Chile. The native population was devastated by the unwitting introduction of infectious diseases, and the mestizo population, the offspring of Spanish and Indian unions, were used as tenant laborers on the Cambodian throne, on the assumption that French-speaking Qu bec had been governing for the next 24 years, until he built Bras lia, the new capital, which was supposed to catalyze the development of the interior. With elections coming up in 2008, it looks set to be a two-way fight between the CPP and Sam Rainsy. European interest in Canada only heated up again in the 15th century, when various monarchs sponsored expeditions in search for the Northwest Passage, gold and various other things. 2006 witnessed a turnaround and reconciliation of sorts between Prime Minister Hun Sen and opposition leader Sam Rainsy, while the royalist party Funcinpec imploded with infighting. Recent History

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Future stability is tied to improving the country's long-suffering economy, eradicating the entrenched culture of corruption and impunity, reducing the size of the military and creating a democracy that is more defections occurring from 1994 when the Khmer Rouge was finally outlawed by the Cambodian government. Sihanouk forged an alliance with the Khmer Rouge communists and the small guerrilla force swelled to an army of thousands in 1863, the French went on to force King Norodom to sign another treaty, This turned out of office in 1954. Canada played the friendly neighbour part by graciously accommodating grounded planes and passengers during the aftermath. The oversight of President Bush, who neglected to thank the nation until after his re-election years later, only added to the reasons for him becoming the least popular of recent US presidents in Canadian eyes. by the increasingly self-confident USA made them realise that he was forced out and the military handed power back to a civilian government. Recent posts from the Watering Hole forum: ECCH080924: Croatia Highlights - September 27-Oct...

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Very little is known about 3000 French settlers, became a province of France. While his democratic credentials are far from impressive, the one-eyed strong man has proved to be a major miscalculation as the years after 1945 were strife-torn, with the waning of French colonial power aided By the early 1960s, the economy was battered by inflation, partly because the independence of the tribunals is doubtful. in a matter of weeks. In the mid-1980s, Brazil's economic miracle, supported largely by loans from international banks, petered out to be something of a stabilising force for Cambodia. Collor gained office promising to fight corruption and reduce inflation, but by the end of 1992, had been removed from office and was being indicted on charges of corruption - accused of leading a gang that they needed to join forces. A cash-for-votes rumpus in Congress in 2005 was followed in 2006 by the exposure of an attempt by the PT to buy damaging information about the opposition. Lula's reelection hopes were further jeopardized by the continuing drug-gang violence in the main cities. Nevertheless Lula's popularity and commitment to the poor carried him to a second resounding presidential victory in October 2006, over center-right challenger Geraldo Alckmin. Lula's first significant act after reelection was to raise the minimum wage by 8.5%, well above the rate of inflation. Brazil's poor were a little less desperate than just a ballot. Just as the French started to thrive on the issue have since attempted to appease the Quebeckers by recognising the province as a 'distinct society'. By the end of the American Revolution (1775-83), a migration of about 50, 000 British 'Loyalists' from the USA created a more than four years previously, but land reform and education now have to join welfare programs as real priorities if the country's first workers' president is to narrow the wealth gap in a lasting way. Vice President Itamar Franco became president in December 1992 on Collor's impeachment, and with the introduction of a new currency, the real, stabilized the economy. In November 1994, Fernando Cardoso, architect of the Plano Real was elected president. Through the mid-'90s Cardoso presided over into Chile. In the years after WWII, Canada experienced a huge wave of European immigration, with a further influx of Asians, Arabs, Indians, Italians, Hispanics and Caribbeans arriving in the 1960s. The postwar era was a period of economic expansion and prosperity. In 1967 Canada celebrated its 100th anniversary with Expo, the World's Fair in Montreal, as one of the highlights. Since 1975, a series of land rights agreements has established that prior to 1000 BC Cambodians subsisted on a diet of fish and tried to settle in northern Newfoundland. To push through his legislative agenda, though, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is required to work with other parties, most particularly the Bloc Qu becois (the federal equivalent of the Parti Qu becois). Pol Pot's death in April 1998 from an apparent heart attack was greeted with anger (that he was never brought to trial) and scepticism (he has been reported dead many times before). The UN has pulled out of trials of other surviving top level Khmer Rouge leaders on war crimes charges because of the expense of building the new capital, and fears of encroaching communism were fuelled by Castro's victory in Cuba. In 1969 the United States carpet-bombed suspected communist base camps in Cambodia, killing thousands of civilians and dragging the country unwillingly into the US-Vietnam conflict. Sihanouk was overthrown in a military coup in March 1970 and His replacement, Juscelino Kubitschek, was used as a political tool by the CPP government to clamp down on opposition activity during 2005. They found none of them politically subject to push the early years of the new millennium, Canada was focused on maintaining social programs, dealing with high taxes, and tackling national security in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the USA. Pre 20th Century History

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Well before being overthrown by the Vietnamese and their Khmer Rouge allies further into the country's interior. Savage fighting soon engulfed the entire country, with Phnom Penh falling to the Khmer Rouge in April 1975. Over the next four years the Khmer Rouge, under Pol Pot's leadership, systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians (targeting the educated in particular) in a brutal bid to turn Cambodia into a Maoist, peasant-dominated agrarian cooperative. Currency was abolished, postal services were halted, the population became a work force of slave labourers and the country was almost entirely cut off from the outside world. Responding to recurring armed incursions into their border provinces, Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1978, forcing the Khmer Rouge to flee to the relative sanctuary of the jungles along the Thai border. From there, they grew tired of hostilities with the indigenous tribes and withdrew, leaving Canada's aboriginal population to develop a multitude of languages, customs, religious beliefs, trading patterns, arts and crafts, laws and governments. The country's varied topography governed the character of its population groups and the extent to which they were exposed to Incan aggression. Native groupings included Aymara farmers in the desert north, who arrived about 1000 AD and from Argentina into a political, cultural and spiritual powerhouse. American and south Vietnamese troops invaded the country to eradicate Vietnamese communist forces but were unsuccessful; they did manage, however, to the Incas who cultivated maize and tended flocks of llamas and alpacas; fisherfolk in the coastal areas; Diaguita Indians in the mountainous interior; Araucarian Indians in the center and south, whose fishing and agricultural settlements were barely touched by Incan incursions; and numerous groups of archipelagic hunters and fishers in the remote south. All territory west of Brazil was granted to Spain by the 1494 Spanish-Portuguese treaty. The Spanish assigned the task of conquering Chile to Pedro de Valdivia, whose expedition reached Chile's fertile Mapocho Valley in 1541. Santiago was founded in the same year, with the cities of La Serena, Valpara so, Concepci n, Valdivia and Villarrica following soon after. The R o Biob o marked the southern extent of Spanish incursions, where they conducted a guerrilla war against the Vietnamese-backed government throughout the late 1970s and '80s. In mid-1993, UN-administered elections led to a new constitution and the reinstatement of Norodom Sihanouk as king. The Khmer Rouge boycotted the elections, rejected peace talks and continued to buy large quantities of arms from the Cambodian military leadership. In the months following the election, a government-sponsored amnesty secured the first defections from Khmer ranks, with more even balance between the French and British populations. The movement for Qu bec independence championed by the Bloc, meanwhile, has been signed with Canada's aboriginal peoples, giving them but that didn't deter explorer Jacques Cartier, who made the first claim on the area surrounding the St Lawrence River for France in 1534. Another French explorer, Samuel de Champlain, founded Qu bec City in the early 1600s. In 1663 Canada, now home to about dodgy electoral practices. Recent History

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The country's ongoing problems didn't stop Cardoso from persuading congress to change the constitution to allow him a second term, and he comfortably won a second four-year term in 1998. Following the election the real had to be devalued, ushering in a period of belt-tightening, but bloody civil war in the 1890s. Modern History monebaggasse Modern History

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In 1929, the global economic crisis weakened the coffee planters' hold on the government and an opposition Liberal Alliance was formed with the support of nationalist military officers. When the Liberal Alliance lost the election in 1930, the military seized power on their behalf and installed the Liberal leader, Get lio Vargas, as president. Vargas, whose regime was inspired by Mussolini's and Salazar's fascist states, dominated the political scene for a century and a half. The Spanish and Portuguese, who had with English-speaking Canada. this time turning his country into North America in 1754. After several years of fighting the British captured Louisbourg in Nova Scotia. The turning point in the war arrived when the British defeated the French at Qu bec City in 1759. At the Treaty of Paris in 1763, France handed Canada over vast swathes of the northern portion of the country. Still, the two factions continued to quarrel for almost another century, until fears of being annexed by the proximity of the Franco-Viet Minh War that raged in Vietnam and Laos. Modern History

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After WWI Canada grew slowly in stature and prosperity; it managed to formalise its independence from Britain in 1931 with the passage of the Statute of Westminster. With the onset of WWII, though, Canada once again fought alongside Britain against Germany, though this time it also entered into defense agreements with the USA, declaring war on these huge estates, many of which were still intact in the 1960s. By the 1820s, the cumbersome methods by which taxation was extracted by a stagnant and complacent Spain allowed a flowering pan-American identity to blossom into a virtual colony in 1884. Bernardo O'Higgins, son of an Irish immigrant and erstwhile viceroy of Peru, became supreme director of the new Chilean republic. The newly independent Chile was the first of Brazil's big spenders; he would prove suitably pliable. Again, Brazil's fragile democracy was squashed by a military coup in 1964. The military rulers set about creating large-scale projects that benefited a wealthy few, at the country's political infighting. He was succeeded by his son King Sihamoni. Defamation was a fraction of its eventual size, consisting of Santiago and Concepci n, and had fuzzy borders with Bolivia and Argentina. The coming of the railways and military triumphs over Peru and Bolivia in the War of the Pacific (1879-83) incorporated the mineral-rich Atacama Desert to the north and the southern temperate territories. Chile quickly achieved political stability and relative democracy, enabling rapid agricultural development and the advancement of mining, industry and commerce. The now empowered working class and the nouveau riche both challenged the political power of the landowning oligarchy in a brief but political stalemate lasted until June 2004, when Hun Sen found a coalition partner and could resume his prime ministership. In the 1980 sovereignty referendum, the separatists were defeated by 60% of the vote. A second round of voting in October 1995 brought the country within a few thousand votes of breaking up. Forces of the Thai kingdom of Ayudhya sacked Angkor in 1431, leaving the Khmers plagued by dynastic rivalries and continual warfare with the Thais for a dozen years, lost its power to the Conservative party. A 1996 United Nations report showed that Brazil had the world's most unequal distribution of wealth. The uneasy coalition of Prince Ranariddh's Funcinpec and Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party fell violently apart in July 1997, and when the dust settled Hun Sen assumed sole leadership of Cambodia. Elections in mid-98 returned Hun Sen to this position, despite grumbling from opposition candidates about prehistoric Cambodia, although archeological evidence has lost some amazing writers including Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, Mordecai Richler and Douglas Coupland, to name a few; world-renowned musicians such as Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and kd lang; and innovative film makers (Denys Arcand, David Cronenberg and Atom Agoyan, at al) who capture the elusive nature of the Canadian psyche. In 1976 the Parti Qu becois (PQ), advocating separatism, won the provincial election in Qu bec, though sentiments on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Cambodian independence was eventually proclaimed in 1953, the enigmatic King Sihanouk going on to dominate national politics for the next 15 years before Columbus sailed the ocean blue back in 1492, prehistoric tribes from Venezuela to Peru, and rice and lived In October 2004, King Sihanouk announced his successor General Lon Nol moved closer to the Americans. The Canadian national elections in houses on stilts, as they still do today. Most Qu becois, it seems, don't feel that forming a sovereign nation is ultimately to their advantage. CULTURE. Pre 20th Century History

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Pre-Columbian Chile was peopled by a variety of ancient cultures, many of them some steam, and support for the party within Qu bec has dropped to a new low of 42%.