between aspects of the Roman empire and forms of empire today: the global capitalist economy and the powerful political, military, and economic reality that is the United States of America. These two are not unrelated, as many people outside the United States have observed. Pablo Richard, for instance, has written that [i]n the last twenty years we [in Central America] have experienced the cruel and terrible experience of Whole Market Empire, governed in a beastly way by the political and military bureaucracy of the United States of America. . . . Our countries live in oppression and exclusion
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