Sunday is also election day in Peru, where a new president will be elected, along with all 190 seats in Congress of Peru (60 senators, 130 members of the Chamber.
I had Alberto Fujimori on my obituary list, but I never got around to writing it. Too bad, but now he's dead and any decent person should say this--good. When.
I suppose it's fairly well-known that I do not have the reflexive obsession with nonviolence in politics that dominates the minds of American liberals. Violence is usually a bad idea.
This is a really powerful piece about how indigenous peoples in South America have integrated the horrors of the rubber baron era into their oral histories and storytelling style. “After.
Illegal logging is not something the progressive community takes particularly seriously, but it's actually a very big deal, not only in Brazil (where it does get attention) but in Mexico.
