Hi everyone,
Well, the heat has finally become too much — it is affecting my health, so I am returning to Nova Scotia early, for about a week, before heading out to Vancouver — where, hopefully, spring weather will have arrived early.
Rio de Janeiro is cranking up, big-time, for Carnaval. Two nights ago I was awoken by floodlights streaking across the sky. Remember how Hollywood galas used to have all those big floodlights? What I saw was much like that, except there were in excess of fifty lights streaming across the sky, waving not just back and forth but flashing on and off, as well, sending out laser-like lines of light, in zigzag patterns across the night sky.
Continue reading Corinne’s Rio Diary: Instalment Sete
In which Corinne announces her early return
“Haiti is in crisis, and an entire society stands on the brink of economic and humanitarian disaster. This disaster is not the product of some unfortunate circumstance, but the direct result of policies carried out by our governments,” says Anthony Fenton, a Vancouver-based activist and corporate media analyst who writes frequently on Haiti. In an essay written with Dru Oja Jay, the two political scientists accuse the media of a blatant disinformation campaign, and of failing to report how humanitarian groups are not being allowed the access that they require, while untold thousands of Haitians starve. Both men accuse US officials of running a covert campaign aimed at Haitian destabilization and regime change.