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In the early 70s, a young Brazilian journalist named Fernando Gabeira joined a radical group to fight a military dictatorship. The most famous act of this group was the kidnapping of the American ambassador in Brazil, Charles Burke Elbrick. They successfully exchanged him for 13 prisoners who being tortured in military prisons.
Brazil is acquainted with all the sides of migrant issues. Immigrants from all over the world built this country. They arrived here in waves: Portuguese, African slaves, Italians, Germans, Poles, Arabs, Jews, and Japanese. Armenians, Koreans, and Turks and many others came in smaller waves. Today, Brazil has immigrants and emigrants. There are Bolivians living here illegally; there are Brazilians living illegally in the United States and Europe.
The U.S. State Department has chosen the worst time to tell us such a foolish thing that China is no longer a human rights offender. PostGlobal asks us whether the State Department is right to say that. Obviously it is not. Look at what is happening right now in Tibet. The violence with which Chinese authorities are repressing the Tibetan movement for freedom and autonomy is completely unacceptable. If someone thinks it is a normal reaction against a separatist movement, look at what is happening in China itself. The Chinese have no freedom to express any disagreement against the communist regime, neither in the press nor in the blogosphere.
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