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In 1976 a military junta, led by general Jorge Rafael Videla, deposed Argentina president Isabel Perón; thus began the Argentinian “Dirty War,” in which thousands of left-wing sympathizers were rounded up, tortured, and executed by the ruling junta. Other leftists fled the country, including the recently deceased Mercedes Sosa and filmmaker Juan Mandelbaum.
Sosa went to [...]

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Why? One war escalating in Afghanistan, another in the swirling vortex of death (and, now, gay killings) that is Iraq. My, oh my.

Graphic from Greenwald.
[Gabriela] Ramírez, a social worker by training [and the people's ombudsperson] of Venezuela], said that if the prize were given for speeches, Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia, would deserve one.
Evo [...]

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Ken Silverstein, of Harper’s, asks Joe Berlinger six questions about Crude: The Real Price of Oil, his new documentary dealing with the environmental and human degradation of the Ecuadorian Amazon due to oil exploration.

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She was a musical giant. Rest in peace.

The WaPo has a good write-up on her.

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A long time ago, fifteen years or so back, a girlfriend took me to a Mercedes Sosa concert in Berkeley, California. At time, I had no idea who she was, but by the concert’s end I was a huge fan of the chubby Argentinian woman with long black hair, a bombo legüero drum, and her [...]

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The 2016 Olympics location is due to be announced today, with Rio de Janeiro as the front-runner. Perhaps coincidentally, today also marks the 41st anniversary of the Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico City, in which up to 300 students were massacred by the police ten days before the Olympics were held there. If Rio wins, it’ll [...]

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This blog has been neglected for the past week and a half or so; we occasionally get work here at Gaviero headquarters and have to concentrate on other things! Apologies to all.
We’ll be playing catch-up for while, posting what we can here, and reading up elsewhere. Here are some tidbits:

IKN notes the ludicrousness of the [...]

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Don’t miss this week’s New Yorker article about the state of Texas executing a likely innocent man; it’s is a must read. It’s possibly the best article I’ve read all year, and it’s up there with the N.Y.’s most relevant and best, alongside Mark Danner’s 1993 article on El Mozote.

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As fall in the northern hemisphere begins soon, and the U.S. will indubitably lose its collective shit at the specter of swine flu, it’s worth our time to remember that there are plenty of preventable diseases that are far more dangerous (something that Otto’s been tirelessly pointing out for a while). It’s just that people [...]

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Glenn Greenwald takes down the contemptible Lanny Davis.

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