Blogging the democratic revolution
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his challenger, Geraldo Alckmin Source: Reuters, via Yahoo! Singapore Today is election day in Brazil, and for 126 million Brazilians, time to decide who their next president and congressional representatives will be. Via the Washington Post, AP has a good primer on the nuts and bolts of how Brazil’s elections work in this post here. According to Arthur Ituassu, of Brazzil magazine: They will be choosing their president and vice-president, twenty-seven governors, senators and state assemblies, as well as 513 federal deputies. What should be a party for one of the biggest democracies in…
Alek Boyd at VCrisis writes that he’s still shaken after being attacked by a horde of 80 Chavista thugs at a campaign rally in the obscure town of Valera in the high Andean mountain state of Trujillo, over in Venezuela’s mostly rightwing west. Trujillo’s a tiny state, with a population only at 608,000, and sort of Juan Valdez territory, where some people wear ponchos and ride llamas and donkeys. Its biggest city, Valera, looks like this: Valera, in the Andean state of Trujillo, Venezuela Source: Municipal Government of Valera But Alek said thousands of Valera citizens attended a Manuel Rosales…