Saturday, May 13, 2006

America's long shadow

Independent Online Edition > Robert Fisk:

"America set up military bases in the north of Brazil without waiting for authorisation

Strange things happen when a reporter strays off his beat. Vast regions of the earth turn out to have different priorities. The latest conspiracy theory for the murder of ex-Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri - that criminals involved in a bankrupt Beirut bank may have been involved - doesn't make it into the New Zealand Dominion Post.

And last week, arriving in the vast, messy, unplanned city of Sao Paulo, it was a Brazilian MP corruption scandal, the bankruptcy of the country's awful airline Varig - worse, let me warn you, than any East European airline under the Soviet Union - and Brazil's newly nationalised oil concessions in Bolivia that made up the front pages.

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