All they achieved was a boycott by ferry operators and a lawsuit from Alaska, eventually dropped as a peace-offering.

ECONOMIST: Canada

But Cocopa's opposition members have been scathing about the government's latest peace-offering.

ECONOMIST: Fortress Mexico

When the enemy broke through and the combat was hand-to-hand, he carried on -- comforting the injured and the dying, offering some measure of peace as they left this Earth.

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