I'm pretty sure everything I know about Rousseff, including the imprisonment and torture, I read in a US publication. Can't remember if it was the New Yorker, the New York Times or Harpers.
The Indy had it last year
and the Guardian must have it -- and the Torygraph had
I've seen a US media (mainstream) story too, somewhere.
Well alrighty then. I was surprised, then I googled and apparently missed stuff for using the wrong terms. Solipsism and invisible bias.
When I google Dilma Rousseff, no women's clinics show up in the results.
Time magazine likes her in a crappy article. Nat a good sign.
new yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/12/05/111205fa_fact_lemann
Central and South America have usually been way off my radar. Exception 1980s.
I figure this is a good thing, as a typical American, if I don't look at them, maybe the rest of Empire will also give them some space and not fuck them up. I know it's magical thinking.
New York Times, September last year: dilma rousseff
Let's hear it for magical thinking, there are worse things.
The weird thing about Dilma Roussef is she was a young leftwing terrorist (or OK, resistance fighter to the military government) who grew up to be a fairly colorless technocrat. The real transformative / genius / FDR figure for Brazilian politics was Lula , a poor kid who left school after fourth grade and worked his way up through the labor movement.
She's sort of Lula's protégée, though, isn't she? That is, my understanding is that her current political career is largely a result of her ties to him rather than any personal charisma of her own.
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Hey, teo, I'm re-reading that John McPhee book I encouraged you to read and, damn, you really should read it. Also, I hope you've been getting out of town here and there.
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I hope you've been getting out of town here and there.
I have not. Winter is not a convenient time to travel around Alaska. I did finally get my car totally fixed, so at least now I am capable of traveling around if I want to, but I'm afraid most of my travel is going to have to wait a few more months.
The book is still on my desk at work. I really should start reading it.
It makes the point quite strongly that one should look for opportunities to get out of Anchorage, certainly.
I'm sure it does. Anchorage has probably changed a lot since it was written, though, and in any case I like it a lot and am not feeling any particular need to leave.
Anchorage has probably changed a lot since it was written, though
Probably. I believe he referred to it as "instant Scotsdale".
Probably a little of both in those days.
I would be curious to hear about how it has changed, at that.
(There are other fascinatingly anachronistic things about the book; he goes out with a team who are trying to evaluate whether the Gates of the Arctic national park should be established, and whether Alaska should establish a new capital city somewhere in the wild of the Susitna valley)
19: I'll let you know when I read the book. Actually, though, any changes between then and now absolutely pale in comparison to the changes over the equivalent length of time previous to then.
20: One reason the book is still considered very important to understanding Alaska is that so much of what the state is today stems directly from events that occurred and decisions that were made in the seventies. Before then it was a very, very different place. The new capital idea never panned out (the voters approved it in a referendum but in a subsequent referendum refused to fund it and that was that), but the debates over whether and where to establish national parks culminated in the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980, which now dominates absolutely everything I do at my job every day.
"....who grew up to be a fairly colorless technocrat. "
Joshka Fischer, Regis Debray. Extreme leftism seems to be regarded as a developmental phase outside the US.
Joshka Fischer, Regis Debray.
Alistair Darling (ex-Trot., Chancellor of the Exchequer under Gordon Brown).
The much-maligned WaPo covered Rousseff's rise to power, too. I'm not sure I understand the point of the post.
Extreme leftism seems to be regarded as a developmental phase outside the US.
A useful one, since to be an effective technocrat you really have to understand the ways free market ideology is bullshit. One area where our technocrats let us down.
After seeing the too-chummy biopic "Joschka and Mr. Fischer" at a film festival two months ago, I'm now somewhat interested in learning more about his old buddy from the Sponti-scene, Daniel Cohn-Bendit. Born stateless in end-of-war France, but grew up in Germany and chose German citizenship to avoid conscription; expelled from France after the '68 riots, and only allowed back in the country ten years later; went from 70s squatter/bookseller/publicist/activist to Deputy Mayor of Frankfurt, European Parliament Member (representing first Germany and then, after '99, France), advocate for intervention in Yugoslavia back in '94 and for an EU Constitution. What an interesting life-course!
16: Probably. I believe he referred to it as "instant Scotsdale". I believe you are alluding to the following passage (which might explain teo liking it):
... a city that has burst its seams and extruded Colonel Sanders. It has come in on the wind, an American spore. A large cookie cutter brought down on El Paso could lift something like Anchorage into the air. Anchorage is the northern rim of Trenton, the center of Oxnard, the ocean-blind precincts of Daytona Beach. It is condensed, instant Albuquerque.