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What's more, though they may not admit it, the more moderate Latin leftists who dominate the region's politics today - including Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whom Obama has invited to the White House in March - know that their own electoral paths were opened in no small part by Chávez's victory in 1998. So it should have come as no surprise that many Latin American Presidents took issue with Obama's suggestion, in a Univision interview last month, that the Venezuelan leader aids terrorists. After all, last summer...
...recently remarked that Obama seemed to have the "same stench" as Bush, but over the weekend said he'd be willing to meet with the new U.S. leader before the Summit of the Americas in April in Trinidad. Obama has already invited Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to the White House next month, a sign that he'd prefer to deal with a more moderate Latin leftist. The only problem is that Lula's second and final term ends next year. Chávez now stands to be around quite a bit longer...
...Portugal's former dictatorship, in power between 1932 and 1974, used to torture its political opponents. Members of the current government include victims of that torture; Portuguese society is also dotted with its perpetrators. "The collective subconscious of the Portuguese is full of guilt," says Lisbon lawyer Francisco Teixeira da Mota, a human rights activist...
...artists looking at things that scientists might look at, and to see a different way of looking at them.”For Means, art and science coincide harmoniously; there is no true division between the two discourses. Referring to the anatomical drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, which she found at once artistic and scientific, Means says the study of both fields is essential to a more profound understanding of the intricacies that govern “the rhythms of nature.”“I don’t feel there is a conflict. [They...
...work for the district attorney’s office,” later adding that he would be willing to “lie and cheat” in order to ruin them. Simpkins had been working as an intern at the Dorchester District Courthouse since September 2007. The DA terminated Simpkins’ internship on Jan. 26, the Monday after prosecutors learned of his arrest. “Particularly disturbing was the fact that [Simpkins] said that he worked at the district attorney’s office,” Wark said. Simpkins was brought to court...