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...abandon them. He was obviously concerned about heading off a Rhodesian-style breakaway by the oil-rich colony. Gomes also offered the liberation fighters a cease-fire until self-determination can be negotiated. The guerrillas' response was immediate: "We refuse to be considered as black Portuguese," said Georges Paulo Texeira, spokesman for the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola. In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the journal of Frelimo (the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique), editorialized: "The only language [Lisbon] understands is the language of force." The guerrillas obviously agreed. They killed nine persons last week in Mozambique...
Americans who want to further the cause of human rights and social justice must be embarrassed to see our nation giving moral and financial support to oppressive governments like Brazil's. The severity of the poverty in places like Sao Paulo or Recife ought to demand of us a dramatic response. The brave example of men like Dom Helder Camara, a man struggling to bring justice to his people, should draw more than just a footnote acknowledgment...
...even some technocrats who have guided Brazil's development reluctantly concede that progress has largely benefited an elite few. Despite the forest of new skyscrapers rising in booming Sào Paulo and the highways cutting through the "green hell" of the Amazonian jungle, perhaps 70% of the nation's people still live outside the money economy in appalling poverty. Brazil stands only 13th among Latin American nations in per capita income ($520 a year), below even backwaters like Surinam. The average life expectancy is only about 50 years (against 67 in Castro's Cuba), and infant...
...have not yet brought the full force of their planning to bear on impoverished regions such as the Northeast. But even in expanding areas, poverty seems built into the master plan. Each flat in the new blocks of expensive marble-hailed apartments mushrooming in Rio and Sào Paulo has its minuscule cubicle for a maid who is likely to earn far less than the posted minimum wage of $65 a month. Nor is the incompetence of the old Brazil a thing of the past: a significant aspect of the Transamazonian Highway was a vast program to colonize...
...have four wives, but he is sadly short of Cabinet talent among his cronies, mostly former NCOS and privates. Before Elizabeth's appointment, he had flayed the Foreign Affairs Ministry as "the weakest and most inefficient I have ever seen." That was after the Ugandan Ambassador to France, Paulo Muwanga, allegedly had absconded to London, taking 500,000 French francs and 25 Ugandan passports "for his family...