The Patriotic Front has been a political irrelevance since it was abandoned by its foreign backers.

“爱国阵线”自从被其外国支持者们遗弃之后就已经没有任何政治意义了。

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The party was given secret financial support by some foreign backers.

该党得到外国一些支持者的秘密资助。

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The former foreign minister acknowledged some of his backers are urging a boycott of the second round of voting, but said he did not want to address the matter personally and risk sapping the electoral campaign of energy.

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For years, Indonesian elites and their foreign backers have argued that lack of freedom and authoritarianism were necessary prices to pay for economic development.

CNN: T COMES AS NO

However much this infuriates Congo's other politicians, the unarmed ones are powerless and the rebels will be weakened if their foreign backers now withdraw.

ECONOMIST: Congo

FARC's demands for sweeping agrarian reform and a redistribution of wealth, coupled with an end to unchecked free-market policies, must be unpalatable to Mr Pastrana's centre-right administration and its foreign backers.

ECONOMIST: Colombia talks peace in the long shadow of war