There's a short scene in this book where a group of rebels rush into the town of Andamarca, whip the terrified townspeople into a revolutionary fervour, and get them to denounce and then attack the town's capitalists, sexual deviants and other undesirables.
But venturing into unfamiliar cities can mean dealing with unfamiliar undesirables.
ETHIOPIAN BORDER GUARDS at the arrivals terminal in Metema check every passport against a handwritten list of undesirables to be kept out.
In order to imply that, if Britons carried the identity cards he favours, he would be better placed to keep undesirables out.The argument about whether or not Britons should have ID cards, which has been dragging on for years, finally seems to be reaching a conclusion.
He had been the army's second in command, after Mr Stroessner, and an unswerving servant of the police state that crushed its critics and was a haven for all kinds of undesirables from Nazi fugitives to drug smugglers.
WHAT'S a government to do when faced with a bunch of undesirables whose guilt is difficult to prove in a court of justice?
Russia's security agencies are issuing special passports to all spectators to filter out not only potential terrorists, but also political troublemakers.The tight security is reminiscent of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, when non-Muscovites were barred from the capital and undesirables shipped out.
The Georgians had often accused Russia of covertly launching such strikes anyway, but the open threat rattled them.So Mr Shevardnadze sent troops into the gorge not the wild, inaccessible nowhere-land that it sounds like, but a broad valley two hours drive from Tbilisi and soon declared it empty of undesirables.
The growing amount of crime in Nigeria has led the OPC, and a similar organisation in the south-east, known as the Bakassi Boys, to begin what they call vigilante operations, lynching suspected armed robbers and other "undesirables".
In opposition the ABLP supported legislation that allows investors to acquire an Antigua passport after investing $250,000 in a National Development Fund. Due-diligence procedures, says the new government, will weed out undesirables.
But on August 31st Stephen Harper's minority Conservative government proudly announced that, for the first time, 80 customs officers along its border with America had been equipped with guns in a first step to arming all its 4,800 border guards by 2017.Despite government denials, all kinds of undesirables are getting into Canada under the country's dysfunctional "refugee" system.
