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On the recordMarch 1, 2011
We've got to be smart strategically about what are the levers that can best be employed to help create indigenous, organized centers of power and influence that are not going to be prey to ideology and radicalism.
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Brown emphasizes the need for strategic support of trade unions in emerging democracies.

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