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Foreign Correspondent

Finally got around to posting some of my recent work on the website. For all who interested here in my recent newspaper work. Still have to find a way to post my radio stuff. And I have an award or two not in the list (he brags) and there are some magazine articles I'd like to get up. I did a big series for EnRoute on what makes a city civilized. All very tongue in cheek, then I find the World Bank using it in presentations, and academics quoting me in courses. Got to get a link up to that soon.

Anyway, here's the links...

BRAZIL SHOWS SIGNS OF CRACKING DOWN ON FRONTIER JUSTICE
By Shawn Blore | The San Francisco Chroniclel

Tacit approval of urban death squads may be changing

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Nova Iguacu, Brazil -- As if it were yesterday, Nilmo, a pizza deliveryman, recalls the first person he shot to death nine years ago.

http://www.shawnblore.com/Pieces/SF%20Chronicle/SF%20Death%20Squad.htm

DESPITE THE CALM, REFORM PRESSURES CHALLENGE BOLIVIA
By Shawn Blore | The Globe and Mail

LA PAZ, BOLIVIA– The blockades around Bolivia's capital have been down for more than a week, and things have returned to relative calm after violent protests overturned the government of Carlos Mesa this month

http://www.shawnblore.com/Pieces/Globe/Bolivia%20June%2028.htm

BOLIVIAN CITY LEARNS PRICE OF PROTEST
By Shawn Blore | The Globe and Mail

EL ALTO, BOLIVIA– - With a fragile truce declared in the protests after the inauguration of new President Eduardo Rodriguez, life in the poor Bolivian city of El Alto has begun an uneasy return to normality.

http://www.shawnblore.com/Pieces/Globe/Bolivia%20June%2014.htm

POLITICAL TURMOIL PARALYZES BOLIVIA
By Shawn Blore | The Globe and Mail

SANTA CRUZ, BOLIVIA– Planes were grounded, roads blocked, and bussed paralysed in Bolivia as the congress of this troubled Andean nation began meeting in the former capital city of Sucre to choose a successor to outgoing President Carlos Mesa.

http://www.shawnblore.com/Pieces/Globe/Bolivia%20June%2010.htm

A NONCHALANT KILLER DEFENDS RIO-STYLE JUSTICE
By Shawn Blore | The Globe and Mail

But vigilantes provoke Brazil's outrage after recent massacre of innocents

RIO DE JANEIRO -- The first man he killed was riding a bicycle. "I had been warned, so I had my gun, with a newspaper over top, like this." The man demonstrates a nonchalant squat on the concrete stoop of his modest house in the Baixada Fluminense, the ring of poor industrial cities surrounding Rio de Janeiro. "When the guy rode up, I shot him."

http://www.shawnblore.com/Pieces/Globe/Death%20SquAD.htm

BRAZILIAN SUPERSTAR ENJOYS DOUBEL BILL AS CULTURE MINISTER
By Shawn Blore |

No stranger to political controversy, singer relishes role of artist as outsider.

RRIO DE JANEIRO -- Gilberto Gil emerges with guitar in hand stage right, pirouettes twice on the way to the microphone and begins a bossa nova version of John Lennon's Imagine. At 62 years of age and sporting slightly shaggy dreadlocks, the Brazilian musical superstar is simultaneously touring in support of a new album and directing policy as his country's Minister of Culture.

http://www.shawnblore.com/Pieces/Globe/Brazil/GilbertoGil.htm