So the banks and international institutions that lent money to Mubarak should bear the responsibility of their choice to bankroll his repressive regime.

Bolivia s Indians have also used their eco clout to convince the energy companies to bankroll their fight for a 750,000 acre homeland bordering Kempff.

Some Arab monarchs have pledged to bankroll the US attack an investment that they would easily recover, given that the war talk has already increased oil prices.

This would be not only fair, but it also would teach an important lesson to those who bankroll dictators a lesson that is likely to have an immediate positive impact worldwide.

That backing appeared to be part of Chávez s Bolivarian socialist revolution, which has used Venezuela s petrodollars to bankroll left wing governments in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Cuba in the hope of building up a regional anti American alliance.

Moreover, he would not be left to himself to govern, but would be a marionette of the oligarchs who bankroll his party, and perhaps of Russia, which yearns albeit more discretely than a year ago for his triumph.