"The former guerrilla set to be the world's most powerful woman". A profile in courage, IMO.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-former-guerrilla-set-to-be-the-worlds-most-powerful-woman-2089916.html

.....this former leader of the resistance to a Western-backed military dictatorship (which tortured her) is preparing to take her place as President of Brazil.........

Her widely predicted victory in next Sunday's presidential poll will be greeted with delight by millions. It marks the final demolition of the "national security state", an arrangement that conservative governments in the US and Europe once regarded as their best artifice for limiting democracy and reform. It maintained a rotten status quo that kept a vast majority in poverty in Latin America while favouring their rich friends.........

The generals seized power in 1964 and decreed a reign of terror to defend what they called "national security". She joined secretive radical groups that saw nothing wrong with taking up arms against an illegitimate military regime. Besides cosseting the rich and crushing trade unions and the underclass, the generals censored the press, forbidding editors from leaving gaps in newspapers to show where news had been suppressed.
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"Western-backed" = Kissinger et al.
"national security state" = Our future.
"cosseting the rich and crushing trade unions and the underclass" = Look around.

[thunder rising]

1. Koch Bros. will be good and kind masters that give us collars that will allow us to speak...SQUIRREL

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2. Funny thing, I would not choose to be Koch Bro master. Nor anyone elses for that matter.

But if possible, I would hope they can get free some day.


I also will not be a slave, the two sorta go together.