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- noun Alternative form of
neo-colony .
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Examples
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They are certainly critical of the new NATO-built neocolony known as West Germany, and they are critical of that entity from a leftist perspective that saw the Christian Democrats as more Nazi than Democrat and began to see Bonn's Social-Democratic Party (SPD) as a political successor to the party that sucked the life out of the 1918 German revolution.
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• The United States seeks to turn Vietnam into a “neocolony.”
HANOI JANE SURFACES ABOUT IRAQ Henry Mark Holzer April 19 1999
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You know well how much our forefathers endured, from Cespedes to Marti, and for more than 50 years in the false republic, in the neocolony.
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We also know that being a neocolony brings people unhappiness, sorrow, suffering, inequality, injustice, and humiliation.
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Then came the immigrants, when we were turned into a neocolony by Yankee intervention, and they bought the best lands of our country and destroyed the forests of precious wood to plant sugarcane.
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We will never resign ourselves to be again a neocolony and a Yankee possession.
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We will never resign ourselves to be again a neocolony and a Yankee possession.
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Yes, the necessary war will return. [applause] When the Yankees intervened in this country and imposed the Platt Amendment and a neocolony, our country said:
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Now, almost a century later, we, who were occupied by the Yankees, who were a Yankee neocolony, and who have liberated ourselves, almost a century later they are adopting measures that are the same as cooperating with U.S. hostility and the blockade against Cuba.
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Our country was a colony for centuries and later a Yankee neocolony for many years.
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