It is a despotic Marxist state which seeks to create a like-minded network in Latin America and provide intelligence and logistical support to America's adversaries.

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The federal and state authorities became offsetting buttresses repelling any despotic aspirations the other might exhibit.

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For example, had the ICC been in place at the time of President Bush's 1989 incursion into Panama to end Manuel Noriega's despotic rule, it is entirely possible that the incoming President's father and his Secretary of State-designate, then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell, might have been subjected to prosecution over charges of inordinate loss of civilian life.

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