Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

of my favourite international politics tv programa in national tv. Among various topics yesterday they were talking about the student/university movement against Chavez in Venezuela. Weird, really... I didn´t knew about it. Have you heard before about the Einstein Institute?. I didn´t... I wanted to search inside the blog the information-track about that but couldn´t find it, I found, instead, other link somewhere with the same information...

blog Visionsiete Internacional

http://blogs.tvpublica.com.ar/internacional

link about university students movements against Chavez government:


http://www.scridb.com/doc/10957786/El-M ... s-Blancas1

Feels good to think about what is going in other countries. I hardly ever thinking about South America and when I do I think of you and .Lucy.

Watched a video last week of the "Dirty War" pretty gruesome vidoes. Could it happen again, got to admire the Israeli confidence when they say "never agaion" We are headed back to the good old days here, when the business of the United States was business. Where the hell did all these Catholics come from. Spooks me. There would be no good horror movies if not for the Catholic Church. I wonder if the Catholic Church was involved in the dirty war?

I like TV blogs, I got lazy and did not translate the individual papers, but I would like to read the Dominican one. Strange to think Haiti and the D.R. share an island. Their economies so different

I hardly ever thinking about South America and when I do I think of you and .Lucy.

good!! and we don´t have the chance to not know or not to think what happen in the let´s call it "central countries" most of the time... that´s life! sure, you can dosificate information and focalize the attention where you want and need sometimes!

Where the hell did all these Catholics come from. Spooks me. There would be no good horror movies if not for the Catholic Church. I wonder if the Catholic Church was involved in the dirty war?

good questions! indeed the catholic church can be abono for horror movies!! that was somehow the effect when I exited the Cusco Cathedral after a guided visit with some economy and iconography explanations... among other things it seems you still can be accompanied by the original Valverde´s cross while attending a mass, see Judas painted in the cuadros as the only indian... yeah, really crazy! Your dirty war? mmm... no idea!

sorry, I had to translate somehow! -from google-

Con el término Guerra Sucia en la Argentina se designa internacionalmente de modo habitual al régimen de violencia indiscriminada, persecuciones, represión ilegal, tortura sistematizada, desaparición forzada de personas, manipulación de la información y terrorismo de Estado que caracterizó a la dictadura militar autodenominada Proceso de Reorganización Nacional, la cual gobernó al país entre los años 1976 y 1983.

La denominación alude al carácter informal e irreglamentado del enfrentamiento entre el poder militar —desligado de la autoridad civil—, contra la misma población civil y las organizaciones guerrilleras, que no obtuvo en ningún momento la consideración explícita de guerra civil. El uso sistemático de la violencia y su extensión contra objetivos civiles en el marco de la toma del poder político y burocrático por las Fuerzas Armadas, determinó la inmediata suspensión de los derechos y garantías constitucionales y propició la aplicación de tácticas y procedimientos bélicos irregulares a toda la población.

No obstante, la denominación como "guerra" es objetada por algunas organizaciones políticas y de derechos humanos, sosteniendo que se trata de un argumento esgrimido originariamente por la dictadura militar para justificar la represión indiscriminada. Una de las consideraciones tenidas en cuenta es la disparidad de víctimas de ambos lados, que hace inadecuada la definición de "guerra"; en su lugar, la moderna jurisprudencia argentina la ha definido como "genocidio".

sure!, there are books that seems to be very interesting written lately by Verbitsky about the history of the Catholic Church in Argentina in different historic periods, if you are in the mood for that! (I didn´t read them yet, but some of the content are already lived or told material for me).

this is an article of 2005 but he wrote more since that. See:

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suple ... 04-24.html