For those of you who haven’t used up your 20 free NYT articles this month (on the 28th! for shame!), be sure to check out Simón Romero’s illuminating piece on Keiko Fujimori. It’s a thorough, balanced treatment. My conclusion? She still gives me the heebie-jeebies.
(p.s., I wonder how that works at the NYTimes now: do journos compete to have their pieces come out on the first few days of the month, when somebody might actually read them?! Isn’t a piece that comes out on the 28th of the month stillborn into an uncaring digital void?!)
I´d still take her over Ollanta Humala all day, every day.
But in the end, they are both steaming sacks of shit.
Me too.
An Ode to Democracy should go here.
In this glorious hour when the “demos” of Peru proves it can be a total jerk-ass, which goes nicely with this glorious era, whereas the “cratos” gives virtually unchecked powers for a single person to screw up the country.
Venezuela is living, breathing, agonizing proof of it (but not the first).
check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeaxMRLT0jA
this is how you tear down Ollanta Humala
Yeah sure, if by “tear down” you mean “cause supporters to fall into a slumber.” A eulogy for the victims of violence in the Fujimori regime would need a lot more than 15 minutes. It’s like the mob — if you haven’t killed anyone, you’re not really “presidenciable.”
If you listen to all the videos (45 min) he provides differences between Humala’s actions and what Alberto Fujimori did. The failed prosecution against Humala vs the successful prosecution of Alberto Fujimori.
Basically, the argument is that even though Fujimori’s violence was vile, Humala supported it and went against Fujimori when the boat was already sinking. He also sucked from Toledo until Toledo fired him. And he never was held accountable of HIS actions. On the other hand, Fujimori is in prison.
agree with sapo… zzzzz on the Bayly piece. But then, when you have a narcissist journo hogging the limelight, you’re bound to get limited content of reduced focused.
Illuminating piece? Mmmm, I found it very boring. The piece didn’t add anything beyond the cumulus of chit-chat gossipy info that is common currency in Lima these days. It didn’t say anything on how all the intellectuality has mass-endorsed Humala, beggining with MVLL, or how a heavy weight economist ended up having a super high profile in Keiko’s campaign (Hernando de Soto). Romero didn’t even intent to profile the true masterminds of Keiko’s campaign the Chlimper-Yoshiyama duo. I think Romero did only a so-so job.
Keiko is really scary, particularly because of the suspicions that if she wins her father will rule from the background. We can hope that if she wins, she’ll really toe the line to avoid even appearing to repeat her daddy’s misdeeds. And that she’ll surround herself with sane moderates who’ll keep her in check. We can always hope.
For Colombia, either candidate sounds like bad news. Humala may be even more leftist than Hugo Chavez, while the Alberto Fujimori regime helped smuggle weapons to the FARC guerrillas.
It’s mind boggling that a country with the fastest-growing economy in the region is going to elect one of these extremists.
http://mikesbogotablog.blogspot.com/2011/05/deciding-between-aids-and-cancer.html
By the way, there’s nothing wrong with paying for news coverage. If nobody does, then we’ll lose the service. And the NYTimes cost only 99 cents, for the first month, anyway.
heebies jeebies es poco… scary in a twisted way. creepy choice between a woman who would support her autocratic father vs her tortured mother, and a nationalist would be chiabe in a country with great growth potential. what’s wrong with us latams???
Latest polls indicate a victory for Keiko and down my earlier predictions. Whatever is the result it will have to be accepted and there are sure to be shouts of “fraud”.
Mike Ceaser could well be correct, Humnala is probably more leftist than Chavez, but there are intellectualn antichavistas in Venezuela who think that Chavez has betrayed the revolution and are far more left than him. These are groups calling gor mass CONFISCATIONS of private property and nationalizations of the banks – they tend to agree with lefties like Alan Woods whose articles you cannot rad since they are too long and probably translted from Russian!!!
If you find yourself needing to read an article after your 20 free, just remove everything after the .html in the address bar and you’ll be able to read it. Sometimes removing your history, cookies, etc.. will reup you to twenty free articles as well.
Also, if you arrive at the article through a hyperlink from another site (like this one), it shouldn’t count towards your 20.
Hey I just checked out your blog. Im Venezuelan too, abroad. For 6 years. Anyway, I love reading the NYT and this is just a thumbs up, though I feel terrible, like a cheater, but there’s a sort of trick for beating the 20 article limit. Well, it works for me. Except you can only read the first page, so it’s not really cheating or anything. Here’s what you do: as soon as you click on the article, click the scroll bar, and keep it pressed for the entire read.
This is really sad, me saying this..but if it’s a perk you want to get rid of, then I hope it was helpful. :)
Keep writing, please.