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Ex-Guerrilla to Be Brazil's First Female President
Written by Laurie Bajo Friday, 05 November 2010 07:32
On Oct. 31, 2010 a former Marxist guerrilla who was tortured and imprisoned during Brazil's long dictatorship was elected Sunday as the first female president of Latin America's biggest nation, a country in the midst of a rapid economic and political rise.
A statement from the Supreme Electoral Court, which oversees elections, said governing party candidate Dilma Rousseff won the election.
With nearly all ballots counted, Rousseff had 56 percent of the vote compared to just under 44 percent for her centrist rival, Jose Serra, the electoral court said.
On Rousseff’s first 25 minute speech she said her first promise was to, “honor the women” and she hoped that her win would allow, “fathers and mothers to look their daughters in the eyes and say, ‘Yes, a woman can.’”
Beginning Jan. 1, she will lead a nation on the rise, a country that will host the 2014 World Cup and that is expected to be the globe's fifth-largest economy by the time it hosts the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Despite Rousseff's win, many voters don't want "Lula," as he is popularly known, to go away. "If Lula ran for president 10 times, I would vote for him 10 times," said Marisa Santos, a 43-year-old selling her homemade jewelry on a Sao Paulo street. "I'm voting for Dilma, of course, but the truth is it will still be Lula who will lead us."
"We've been waiting for this dream for so long," said Sandra Martins, a 40-year-old school teacher who was dressed in Worker Party red and waving a large Rousseff campaign flag. "It's going to be the third term for Lula - except this time represented by a woman."
"I voted for Dilma because she is a fighter," said Estevam Sanches, a 43-year-old pizza parlor owner in Sao Paulo. "What we need is a fighter in the presidency to continue, as she says she will, with Lula's efforts to eradicate poverty and strengthen the economy."
Dilma is the daughter of a Bulgarian immigrant father, a lawyer who died when she was 14, and a Brazilian mother who was a schoolteacher. Her past points to an early political awakening.In 1967, as a 19-year-old economics student, she joined a militant political group opposing the dictatorship. For three years she helped lead guerrilla organizations, instructed comrades on Marxist theory and wrote for an underground newspaper.
After being released, she moved to southern Brazil in 1973, where she reunited with her now ex-husband, Carlos Araujo, who was also an imprisoned militant. She gave birth to a daughter and finished an economics degree. As Brazil's dictatorship began to loosen its grip, Rousseff became more politically involved and campaigned to get her husband elected to the state congress in 1982.
"We fought and participated in a dream to build a better Brazil," she said in an interview published in the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo in 2005, one of the rare times she has spoken in detail about her militancy and torture endured."
North Carolina Woman Arrested After Body Is Found in Freezer
Written by Laurie Bajo Friday, 22 October 2010 07:34
On October 8, 2010, a girlfriend of a missing North Carolina man was charged with murder. She killed her boyfriend and stuffed his body in a freezer in their home. They weren’t married but had two kids, a 17 year-old daughter and 15 year-old son.
Investigators are now trying to find the 15 year old boy that’s been reported missing.
41 year-old Wendy Edmond Green is being held without bond in Wake County Jail on a charge of a first-degree murder, in the death of her 52 year-old boyfriend, David Reuben Green Jr. Investigators had been looking for him since early September. His family members reported him missing on September 7.
The first time authorities searched the couples Raleigh home they were unable to find him. On the second investigation of the house the investigators sense a “powerful smell” coming from the freezer and when they opened it up they found the body of David.
Wendy was arrested on Thursday from a nearby Robeson County home she had been staying and was taken to jail immediately. Even though David and Wendy were not married, Wendy assumed her boyfriends last name.
The state Medical Examiner's Office in Chapel Hill found that Green died of blunt-force trauma. Investigators suspect he was killed sometime in April. Authorities do not yet have a motive in the case, Stephens said.
Plane Crash in Austin
Written by Kylie London Wednesday, 10 March 2010 08:15
On February 18, a plane crashed into a federal office building in Austin, Texas.
Joseph Stack purposefully flew his small plane into the IRS building after ranting about it online, two days before. Stack’s body was not found, but police presumed him dead.
“I knew Joe had a hang-up with the I.R.S. on account of them breaking him, taking his savings away,” Stack’s father-in-law said. “And that’s undoubtedly the reason he flew the airplane against that building. Not to kill people, but just to damage the I.R.S.”
However, thirteen people were injured, two were killed, and one was reported missing.
One worker, Peggy Walker said that it felt like bombs went off.
"The ceiling caved in and windows blew in. We got up and ran,” Walker said.
Firefighters had to work all afternoon to put out the fire that the deadly crash caused.
The night before the plane crash, Stack’s wife had taken her daughter to a hotel because she was scared of Joseph’s “increasingly frightening anger.” The next morning, she returned to their house to find it on fire, and her husband gone. They later heard the reports of his plane crashing into the IRS building.
Because of the crash, a nationwide fear of terrorist attacks occurred, but police say there is no reason to believe that Stack was in connection with any terrorist groups. He was just a man with a grudge.
College choices of 2010
Written by Faith Daniel Thursday, 25 February 2010 08:15
So Salitza is going off to Kansas to play tennis, but where are all the other seniors going to college? This year’s soon-to-be-graduates are planning on spreading out all over the state and country for college.
For an example, Lizelle Morales will be traveling to Oachita Hills College in Arkansas, while Shelbie Smith will be staying in close range for the University of Texas at Arlington. "I’m very excited to be attending UTA." Shelbie Smith said. "I like the college because it’s pretty close to home while being an excellent school, especially for my desired major."
Elias Ortega has decided that he wants to head to the sunshine state for Florida’s Institute of Technology, and Tabitha Miles is still searching for a college with a good nursing program.
Last Updated on Thursday, 25 February 2010 08:25How YOU can help Haiti
Written by Kylie London Thursday, 25 February 2010 08:10
We all heard about the disaster to hit Haiti. The magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti hard on January 12. Since then, there have been more than 50 aftershocks to hit Haiti.
3 million people in Haiti were affected by the earthquakes; about half of them were children under the age of 18.
In many places, school was still in session at the time of 7.0 magnitude earthquake.
There were about 200 schools destroyed in the earthquakes. One in every four students in Haiti was left without a way to get an education.
Students who could not leave for place with functional schools are now going to have to wait months before they can get back to their educations.
In the camps students try to keep up with their studies, in vain. They don’t have the material they need to study, so they have to settle for whatever they can find around the camps.
Schools are starting to reopen in Haiti’s capital, but people in other cities are still waiting, or have gone to other countries for schooling.
Mrs. Payne said that it would be a good idea to start donations for Haiti. A meeting for Beta Club is scheduled for Wednesday, February 9th to talk about what type of things people could donate and when the charity would start.
You don’t have to be in Beta Club to donate. Donations from anyone would be taken.
If you have any questions about this, Mrs. Payne can answer them.
Last Updated on Thursday, 25 February 2010 08:11More Articles...
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