Park faces an opposition with a strengthened veto power, and the possibility of organizedresistance to her foreign policy initiatives by prominent liberal groups, Park Ihn-hwi, a professor at Ewha Womans University in South Korea, wrote on the Council on Foreign Relations' website.
New Jersey joins Connecticut and New York this year in considering increases to the minimum wage an issue that has become central to many Democrats and organized labor, but has met resistance from Republicans and business groups.
The Ecuadorean government would also face heavy resistance from its well-organized indigenous community regarding the environmental cost of exploiting those reserves.
At the University of Arizona this week, resistance took the form of Immigration Awareness Week, a series of programs and information sessions organized by Mejia and others that included meetings on how the law works and an open forum for students to share their struggles with immigration.