"At the Beijing and Sochi Olympics, the exploitation of migrant workers, repression of critics, and corruption cast a long shadow over the sports," said Minky Worden, the director of global initiatives at Human Rights Watch.
The proprietor says his staff gets through scores of kilograms of dog meat per day.Vietnam, a one-party state, already has many critics of its repression of dissent, its corruption and a banking sector plagued by bad debt.
"I always hold the government responsible for the emergence of such groups because of its policies of repression, discrimination, corruption that make people really angry," Mr Kamhawi said.
Nearly all of them, he said, spoke of repression and corruption in the camps, and of imprisonment for those who tried to leave.
A letter he wrote after his arrest suggested that a "large splodge of wonga" (English schoolboy slang for lots of money) is the usual way out of an African prison.More used to press reports of misrule, repression and corruption, the government of this speck of a country is enjoying its rare chance to pose as the victim of an international terrorist plot.
But for many Tunisians this was clearly not enough: higher incomes and better access to services did not compensate for the ills and costs of corruption, repression and inequality.
That is the territory -- of corruption, repression and one-party rule -- that nearly everyone else here, among the citizens who waited patiently to vote or the many candidates who ran for president, vows not to return to.
May their actions help to shine worldwide light onto a country of repression, corruption and detachment from reality.
The incoming president, Enrique Peña Nieto, a former state governor with a pretty-boy image, represents a restoration of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which ruled the country between 1929 and 2000 through a mixture of repression, corruption, co-option and vote-fixing.
As Tunisia debates this controversial bill, the world wonders, with anxiety, whether the spirit of transparency and popular demand for accountability set off during the revolution will survive, or whether it will be defeated by the power of ill-gotten money and lead to a downward spiral of repression, more corruption and still unabated extremist violence.
In illustrating his tales of revolutionaries taking back the streets, often violently, from plutocratic forces of repression and corruption, Mr. Rodriguez drew motorcycles and other machinery, detailed cityscapes, futuristic and historical military scenes and hyper-sexed human figures.
