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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Brazil got used to being recognized</strong> for it&#39;s Internet savvy and large population of early web-adopters. Nevertheless, or maybe exactly because of that, the country is rapidly becoming a haven for novel and inventive models and tactics of Internet censorship.</p>
<p>A quick search on &#8216;brazil&#39; + &#8216;censorship&#39; in Global Voices returns a bunch of scary titles posted just in the last 6 months: <a title="Permanent Link to Dismissal of Brazilian Blogger: Censorship or Just Business?" rel="bookmark" href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/03/23/dismissal-of-brazilian-blogger-censorship-or-just-business/">Dismissal of Brazilian Blogger: Censorship or Just Business?</a> (March 23rd), <a title="Permanent Link to Brazil: Bloggers united against Wordpress ban" rel="bookmark" href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/04/12/brazil-bloggers-united-against-wordpress-ban/">Bloggers united against Wordpress ban</a> (April 12th), <a title="Permanent Link to Brazil: First blog falls victim to electoral law" rel="bookmark" href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/06/01/brazil-first-blog-falls-victim-to-electoral-law/">First blog falls victim to electoral law</a> (June 1st), <a title="Permanent Link to Brazil: Blogging Against Web-Censorship" rel="bookmark" href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/07/19/brazil-blogging-against-web-censorship/">Blogging Against Web-Censorship</a> (June 19th), <a title="Permanent Link to Brazil: Bloggers question the 13 new cyber-crimes" rel="bookmark" href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/07/17/brazil-bloggers-question-the-13-new-cyber-crimes/">Bloggers question the 13 new cyber-crimes</a> (July 17th), <a title="Permanent Link to Brazil: Electoral censorship at work" rel="bookmark" href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/07/22/brazil-electoral-censorship-at-work/">Electoral censorship at work</a> (July 22nd).</p>
<p>This time, the weird news sprouts from the state of Minas Gerais, where governor Aécio Neves is carefully preparing himself to run as presidential candidate in 2010, when Lula leaves office. In the midst of country-wide municipal elections, the opposing online journal &#8216;Novo Jornal&#39; was taken down by state level prosecutors &#8212; the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minist%C3%A9rio_P%C3%BAblico_%28Brazil%29">Public Ministry</a> &#8212; on (refuted) charges of anonymity.</p>
<p>Truth is that the <a href="http://www.v-brazil.com/government/laws/titleII.html">Brazilian Constitution</a> sets up an unusually twisted situation, especially for online speech: free expression of thought is assured  in the same paragraph where anonymity is formally forbidden. Still, the seizure of &#8216;Novo Jornal&#39; is calling the attention of the blogosphere for the inventive strategy of using state level prosecutors and cybercrime allegations to immediately take down an informative website without the proper legal process. Blogs are also pointing out the fact that the mainstream media has been silent about the case &#8212; in what has started to appear as a pattern when it comes to negative coverage on Aécio Neves.</p>
<p>The matrix-like display forced upon &#8216;NovoJornal&#39;s web page sets the tone.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/censura.jpg" alt="This page is suspended by a legal precautionary measure and the site content is being analysed for criminal evidences" title="State Prosecutors on the Combat of Cybercrimes" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-49683" /><br />
<em>This page is suspended by a legal precautionary measure and<br />
the site content is being analysed for criminal evidences</em><br />
State Prosecutors on the Combat of Cybercrimes</p>
<blockquote><p>A justificativa do MPE, retirada do <a title="O Tempo" onclick="javascript:urchinTracker('/outbound/www.otempo.com.br/otempo/noticias/?IdEdicao=1019_amp_IdCanal=1_amp_IdSubCanal=_amp_IdNoticia=87766_amp_IdTipoNoticia=1?ref=/new/2008/09/04/minas-gerais-a-censura-e-o-estado-das-coisas/');" href="http://www.otempo.com.br/otempo/noticias/?IdEdicao=1019&amp;IdCanal=1&amp;IdSubCanal=&amp;IdNoticia=87766&amp;IdTipoNoticia=1" target="_blank">site do jornal O Tempo</a>: “Instaurado o Procedimento Investigatório Criminal, constatou-se que não há identificação do responsável pelo site - que se intitula jornal, fato que fere frontalmente a Constituição Federal que prevê que é livre a manifestação do pensamento, sendo vedado o anonimato, além da Lei de Imprensa, que se aplica à Internet”&#8230;  Independente de lados políticos, postura jornalística, anonimato ou não, o que percebo é que os braços da censura estão à solta, e a História mostra que eles costumam ser usados por aqueles que estão no poder, poucas vezes com boas razões. Mais do que apoiar ou condenar, é preciso ficar de olho, fiscalizar. Pensando bem, não era essa a função do Ministério Público - e, em outra esfera, da imprensa?<br />
<a href="http://narua.org/new/2008/08/18/e-tem-gente-que-pensa-que-calice-e-coisa-do-passado/">E tem gente que pensa que calice é coisa do passado</a> - <a href="http://narua.org/">NaRua.org</a></p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">The State Prosecutor&#39;s consideration is stated on O Tempo&#39;s website: &#8220;Once the criminal investigation procedure started, it was found that there is no identification of who is in charge of the site &#8212; which labels itself as a Journal &#8212; incurring in a frontal violation of the Federal Constitution, which guarantees the free expression of thought but forbids anonymity, and also the Press Law, which applies to the Internet&#8221;&#8230; Apart from [issues of] political partisanship, journalistic viewpoint or anonymity, the one thing I perceive is that the arms of censorship are reaching out, and history tells us that they are usually utilized by the ones in power, and rarely for good reasons. More than debating the merits of the case, it is important to stay alert and be on guard. Thinking about it&#8230; wouldn&#39;t that be the role of the State Prosecutors, and from the other side, of the media?<br />
<a href="http://narua.org/new/2008/08/18/e-tem-gente-que-pensa-que-calice-e-coisa-do-passado/">There are people who think censorship is something from the past</a> - <a href="http://narua.org/">NaRua.org</a></div>
<blockquote><p>No momento em que foi retirado do ar, o Novo Jornal trazia em sua primeira página uma matéria com pesadas críticas ao Presidente do STF, Gilmar Mendes. A matéria <a href="http://209.85.215.104/search?q=cache:3U7xklpewrQJ:www.novojornal.com.br/politica_noticia.php%3Fcodigo_noticia%3D7235+Afinal,+quem+%C3%A9+o+ministro+Gilmar+Mendes%3F&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;cd=2&amp;gl=us&amp;client=firefox-a">ainda pode ser lida no cache do Google</a>. O Novo Jornal também <a href="http://observatorio.ultimosegundo.ig.com.br/artigos.asp?cod=419JDB005">denunciou </a>que o governador Aécio Neves pagou US$ 269 milhões de dívidas da Rede Globo de Televisão na compra da Light.<br />
<a href="http://www.idelberavelar.com/archives/2008/08/mais_um_golpe_contra_a_liberdade_de_imprensa_em_minas_retirado_do_ar_site_jornalistico_que_continha.php">Retirado do ar site jornalístico que continha denúncias contra Aécio Neves</a> - <a href="http://www.idelberavelar.com/">O Biscoito Fino e a Massa</a></p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">At the moment it was taken down, the &#8216;Novo Jornal&#39; website was displaying on it&#39;s home page an article heavily criticizing the Federal Supreme Court president, Gilmar Mendes. The article  <a href="http://209.85.215.104/search?q=cache:3U7xklpewrQJ:www.novojornal.com.br/politica_noticia.php%3Fcodigo_noticia%3D7235+Afinal,+quem+%C3%A9+o+ministro+Gilmar+Mendes%3F&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;cd=2&amp;gl=us&amp;client=firefox-a">can still be read in Google&#39;s cache</a>. &#8220;Novo Jornal&#8221; also decried that Aécio Neves payed US$ 269 million of Globo TV Network&#39;s debts on the purchase of Light [Electric Company].<br />
<a href="http://www.idelberavelar.com/archives/2008/08/mais_um_golpe_contra_a_liberdade_de_imprensa_em_minas_retirado_do_ar_site_jornalistico_que_continha.php">Brought down news website denouncing Aécio Neves</a> - <a href="http://www.idelberavelar.com/">O Biscoito Fino e a Massa</a><a href="http://narua.org/"></a></div>
<blockquote><p>Ao contrário do argumentado pelo Ministério Público, o Novojornal encontra-se rigorosamente dentro da lei, inclusive com diretor-responsável registrado na DRT, detentor do MTE nº 000311/MG, respondendo o mesmo por todas as matérias não-assinadas publicadas no Novojornal&#8230; Dessa forma, comprovado está que jamais existiu o anonimato argüido pelo MP-MG. Inclusive o diretor-responsável e o endereço de sua sede encontram-se registrados no Registro.br, cadastro oficial de todos os sítios da internet no Brasil.<br />
<a href="http://luiscarlosgusmao.blogspot.com/2008/08/continua-censurado-por-acio-neves-o.html">Continua censurado por Aécio Neves o site &#8216;Novo Jornal&#39;</a> - <a href="http://luiscarlosgusmao.blogspot.com/">Em cima da notícia</a></p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">Contrary to the State Prosecutor&#39;s arguments, &#8220;Novo Jornal&#8221; was strictly under the law, with it&#39;s Director in Charge registered at the Regional Labor Office, holding the MTE nº 000311/MG, what puts him in charge of all the non-signed articles published at &#8220;Novo Jornal&#8221;&#8230; That&#39;s how it is proved that there never was no anonymity as stated by the State Prosecutors. NovoJornal&#39;s Director in Charge and it&#39;s address are also listed at Registro.br, the official registry for all Internet sites in Brazil.<br />
<a href="http://luiscarlosgusmao.blogspot.com/2008/08/continua-censurado-por-acio-neves-o.html">NovoJornal remains censored by Aecio Neves</a> - <a href="http://luiscarlosgusmao.blogspot.com/">Em cima da notícia</a></div>
<blockquote><p>Será que não existem coisas mais importantes para o Ministério Público mineiro investigar do que ficar censurando a Internet, a mando do governador, com a desculpa de se tratar de Crime Cibernético?<br />
<a href="http://rastreadoresdeimpurezas.blogspot.com/2008/08/em-terra-de-presidencivel-censura.html">Em terra de presidenciável, censura-se a oposição como crime cibernético</a> - <a href="http://rastreadoresdeimpurezas.blogspot.com/">Rastreadores de Impurezas</a></p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">Aren&#39;t there more important issues for the Public Ministry of Minas to investigate than to censor the Internet, following governor&#39;s orders, disguised as an action against Cybercrime?<br />
<a href="http://rastreadoresdeimpurezas.blogspot.com/2008/08/em-terra-de-presidencivel-censura.html">In the land of a presidential candidate, you censor the opposition as cybercrime</a> - <a href="http://rastreadoresdeimpurezas.blogspot.com/">Rastreadores de Impurezas</a></div>
<p><strong><br />
As bloggers were quick to notice</strong>, there are some other things being done in Brazil (see also: &#8220;<a title="Permanent Link to Brazil: Bloggers question the 13 new cyber-crimes" rel="bookmark" href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/07/17/brazil-bloggers-question-the-13-new-cyber-crimes/">Bloggers question the 13 new cyber-crimes</a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a title="Permanent Link to Brazil: Cybercrime bill is now translated" rel="bookmark" href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/07/19/brazil-cybercrime-bill-is-now-translated/">The cost of the cybercrime bill</a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a title="Permanent Link to Brazil: Cybercrime bill is now translated" rel="bookmark" href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/07/19/brazil-cybercrime-bill-is-now-translated/">Cybercrime bill is now translated</a>&#8220;) disguised as actions against Cybercrime.</p>
<blockquote><p>Na revista digital <a href="http://www.novae.inf.br/">NovaE</a>, um <a href="http://www.novae.inf.br/site/modules.php?name=Conteudo&amp;pid=1077">longo texto</a> do blogueiro <a href="http://www.tamoscomraiva.com.br/">José de Souza Castro</a>, o primeiro a descobrir que o site do <a href="http://www.novojornal.com.br/">Novo Jornal</a> foi tirado do ar por ação da justiça, começa a detalhar o que ocorreu e faz o link entre esse processo e o cerco que começa a se estruturar no Brasil contra a liberdades na rede mundial de computadores:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8220;O governo de Minas parece que tinha muita pressa para resolver essa questão com o Novo Jornal. Segundo O Tempo, “a Promotoria Estadual de Combate aos Crimes Cibernéticos foi criada em Belo Horizonte em 16 de julho deste ano. Com o crescente número de crimes praticados por usuários da rede, o MPE decidiu pela sua implantação. A promotoria atua como um órgão de suporte aos promotores de Justiça que atuam na área criminal e agiliza o atendimento às vítimas”. E acrescenta, citando uma pessoa identificada como Vanessa Fusco: A estratégia é agir proativamente no enfrentamento desse tipo de crime, que vem crescendo principalmente com a chegada da banda larga às cidades do interior”. E conclui: “Um projeto de autoria do senador Eduardo Azeredo (PSDB) prevê a tipificação da conduta dos crimes praticados na Internet”. (texto da Novae)&#8221;<a href="http://www.savazoni.com.br/?p=157"></a></p>
<p>A censura à Internet em Minas Gerais - <a href="http://www.savazoni.com.br/">Em busca da palavra justa</a></p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">In <a href="http://www.novae.inf.br/">NovaE</a> digital magazine there is a <a href="http://www.novae.inf.br/site/modules.php?name=Conteudo&amp;pid=1077">long article</a> from blogger <a href="http://www.tamoscomraiva.com.br/">José de Souza Castro</a>, the first to find out that &#8220;<a href="http://www.novojornal.com.br/">NovoJornal</a>&#8221; was brought down by a legal action, where he starts to delve deeper in the details, which leads him to link this particular process to the siege that is being engineered in Brazil against Internet liberties [the <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/07/19/brazil-cybercrime-bill-is-now-translated/">Cybercrime Bill</a>]:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8220;The government of Minas Gerais seemed to be in a haste to settle this issue with &#8216;Novo Jornal&#39;. According to &#8216;O Tempo&#39;, &#8220;the Cybercrime Combat State Prosecutors was created in Belo horizonte on July 16th this year. In face of  the rampant number of crimes practiced by network users, the State <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minist%C3%A9rio_P%C3%BAblico_%28Brazil%29">Public Ministry</a> has decided for its deployment. The Cybercrime Prosecutor acts as a support to justice prosecutors working on the criminal sector, and streamlines attendance to victims.&#8221; The newspaper adds, quoting someone identified as Vanessa Fusco: &#8220;The strategy is to act pro-actively in confronting this type of crime, which keeps growing mainly with the arrival of broadband to the interior&#8221;. And concludes: &#8220;A project authored by Senator Eduardo Azeredo (PSDB) seeks (or sought) to define and list the criminal acts performed on the Internet&#8221; (Novae&#39;s text)&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.savazoni.com.br/?p=157">Internet censorship in Minas Gerais</a> - <a href="http://www.savazoni.com.br/">Em busca da palavra justa</a></div>
<p><strong><br />
The &#8216;NovoJornal&#39;s case is also</strong> showing that, despite what the constitution provides on the matter of free speech, &#8216;anonymity&#39; may play an important role as a &#8216;checks and balance&#39; element in a democratic public space. The video below shows NovoJornal&#39;s Director in Charge, Marco Aurélio Carone, answering why the articles on the site have no attribution and are not signed. The interview was published on YouTube some weeks before &#8216;NovoJornal&#39; was censored.</p>
<p align="center"><iframe src="http://dotsub.com/media/d75ef3f6-7218-4f82-82da-f22979cc06c8/e/m" frameborder="0" width="420" height="347"></iframe></p>
<p><strong><br />
If you&#39;ve managed to follow along</strong> this far, you will surely want to watch the video below, made by the Brazilian <a href="http://www.danielflorencio.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Florêncio</a> for Current.TV, and presented as &#8220;an investigation into the seemingly increasingly curtailed press in Brazil&#8221;. But first, a blogger account to add context:</p>
<blockquote><p>A reportagem de Florêncio ‘nasceu’ do documentário “<a title="Marcelo Baêta" href="http://amplifique.wordpress.com/liberdade-essa-palavra/">Liberdade, essa palavra</a>“, produzido em 2006 pelo então estudante de jornalismo <a title="Marcelo Baêta" href="http://amplifique.wordpress.com/">Marcelo Baêta</a>&#8230; Tanto o documentário de Baêta quanto a reportagem do Daniel repercutiram na imprensa nacional e internacional (a Folha e o Le Monde publicaram matérias sobre o caso), e geraram respostas incisivas dos partidários de Aécio, que usaram a mesma ferramenta, o <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88ZtDk9zxb8">YouTube</a>, para a defesa&#8230; Depois de ver todos os vídeos relacionados ao caso (<a title="Sessão Youtube: Censura em MG" href="http://narua.org/new/sessao-youtube-censura-em-minas-gerais/">veja mais aqui</a>), ficou a pulga atrás da orelha: teriam os jornalistas realmente tirado os seus da reta no caso?<br />
<a href="http://narua.org/new/2008/09/04/minas-gerais-a-censura-e-o-estado-das-coisas/">Minas Gerais, a censura e o estado de coisas</a> - <a href="http://narua.org/">NaRua.org</a></p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">Florêncio&#39;s report was &#8216;born&#39; from the documentary “<a title="Marcelo Baêta" href="http://amplifique.wordpress.com/liberdade-essa-palavra/">Liberdade, essa palavra</a>“ (Freedom, this word), produced in 2006 by then journalism student <a title="Marcelo Baêta" href="http://amplifique.wordpress.com/">Marcelo Baêta</a>&#8230; Both Baêta&#39;s documentary and Daniel&#39;s report had repercussions in the national and international media (Folha de Sao Paulo and Le Monde published articles on the case), that generated sharp responses from Aécio&#39;s partisans, who used the same tool, the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88ZtDk9zxb8">YouTube</a>, for defense&#8230; After seeing all the case&#39;s related videos (<a title="Sessão Youtube: Censura em MG" href="http://narua.org/new/sessao-youtube-censura-em-minas-gerais/">see more here</a>), I was puzzled by something: did the journalists really &#8216;take their asses off the line&#39; in the case?<br />
<a href="http://narua.org/new/2008/09/04/minas-gerais-a-censura-e-o-estado-das-coisas/">Minas Gerais, the censorship and the state of affairs</a> - <a href="http://narua.org/">NaRua.org</a></div>
<p>You may want also to watch the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgbdpM09ysk">video response</a> to the curren.tv&#39;s piece.</p>
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<p><strong>The viral spread</strong> of Internet participation across the Brazilian population is producing quite a shaking in the established realms of media, politics and courts. But it is exactly this kind of upheaval that generates the discourse necessary to the discovery of balanced protocols for  managing the contradictions revealed by the age of information. Stay tuned &#8212; this is an ongoing process. </p>
<blockquote><p>Há um backup do site [NovoJornal] em <a href="http://www.idelberavelar.com/archives/2008/08/mais_um_golpe_contra_a_liberdade_de_imprensa_em_minas_retirado_do_ar_site_jornalistico_que_continha.php#c38733">http://rapidshare.com/files/138763257/novojornal.tar.bz2.html<br />
Comentário de Winston</a> em<span id="body"> <a href="http://www.idelberavelar.com/archives/2008/08/mais_um_golpe_contra_a_liberdade_de_imprensa_em_minas_retirado_do_ar_site_jornalistico_que_continha.php">Retirado do ar site jornalístico que continha deúncias contra Aécio Neves</a> - <a href="http://www.idelberavelar.com/">O Biscoito Fino e a Massa</a></span></p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">There is a backup of [NovoJornal] site on <a href="http://www.idelberavelar.com/archives/2008/08/mais_um_golpe_contra_a_liberdade_de_imprensa_em_minas_retirado_do_ar_site_jornalistico_que_continha.php#c38733">http://rapidshare.com/files/138763257/novojornal.tar.bz2.html<br />
Comment from Winston</a> in<span id="body"> </span><a href="http://www.idelberavelar.com/archives/2008/08/mais_um_golpe_contra_a_liberdade_de_imprensa_em_minas_retirado_do_ar_site_jornalistico_que_continha.php">Brought down news website denouncing Aécio Neves</a><span id="body"> - <a href="http://www.idelberavelar.com/">O Biscoito Fino e a Massa</a></span></div>
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		<title>Angola: Elections in pictures</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/09/06/angola-elections-in-pictures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Angolans are at the polls for the first time in 16 years - the election is still taking place this Saturday at 320 polling stations in the capital Luanda. So far, no incidents have been reported, and public spirit has prevailed, as observed by photographer José Manuel Lima da Silva.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This Friday September 05 was a special day in Angola. After <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/20/angola-electoral-campaign-fails-to-excite-voters/">lukewarm elections campaigning</a>, the population <a href="http://voanews.com/english/2008-09-05-voa47.cfm">was excited to vote</a> for a new parliament in the first elections in 16 years. For many people, this was the first opportunity to exercise their right to vote. Most of the population <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSL5586750._CH_.2400">went peacefully</a> to about 12,000 polling stations, however voting is to continue today at 320 stations in the capital Luanda, due to yesterday&#39;s logistical problems that caused delays in the delivery of ballots.</p>
<p>As reactions start to appear on the blogosphere, a full report is on its way. For now here are <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kool2bbop/sets/72157606783165057/">some pictures </a>showing the run up to the historic day, registered by José Manuel Lima da Silva, Flickr user <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/kool2bbop/">Kool2bBop</a>, along with his own remarks:</p>
<blockquote><p>Unidade Nacional. Angola está a provar ao mundo que, apesar das diferenças, é um povo UNIDO.<br />
UM SÓ POVO, UMA SÓ NAÇÃO.<br />
Esperemos que tudo acabe como até aqui! - civismo</p></blockquote>
<p class="translation">&#8220;National Unity. Angola is showing the world that, despite differences, it has a united people. One people, one nation. We hope it will be like this in the end - public spirit!&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kool2bbop/2832978494/in/set-72157606783165057/"></a><br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kool2bbop/2832978952/in/set-72157606783165057/"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-49656" title="2832978952_b6e81cf943" src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/2832978952_b6e81cf943.jpg" alt="" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kool2bbop/2832978650/in/set-72157606783165057/"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-49658" title="2832978650_5e3bc726c7" src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/2832978650_5e3bc726c7.jpg" alt="" width="447" height="336" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kool2bbop/2832978370/in/set-72157606783165057/"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-49655" title="2832978370_838f6f437e" src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/2832978370_838f6f437e.jpg" alt="" /></a><br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kool2bbop/2827619740/"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-49644 aligncenter" title="2827619740_fb55540b3f" src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/2827619740_fb55540b3f.jpg" alt="" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-49657 aligncenter" title="2832978494_4682ac505b" src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/2832978494_4682ac505b.jpg" alt="" width="436" height="327" /></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kool2bbop/2827619604/in/photostream/"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-49646" title="2827619604_66882b6bdd" src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/2827619604_66882b6bdd.jpg" alt="" width="432" height="324" /></a><br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kool2bbop/2827619446/in/photostream/"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-49649" title="2827619446_393f45c33b_o" src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/2827619446_393f45c33b_o.jpg" alt="" width="535" height="401" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kool2bbop/2826783329/in/photostream/"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-49645" title="2826783329_ee3fda86ee" src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/2826783329_ee3fda86ee.jpg" alt="" /></a></p>
<p>There are many more pictures of the actual big day at <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/clandestino_rtw/">Tiago Sousa</a>&#39;s and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/84269782@N00/">Sam.Seyffert</a>&#39;s flickr galleries.</p>
<p>Around 8.3 million people have registered to vote, choosing from among over 5,000 candidates from 10 parties and four coalitions. There are in total 220 parliamentary seats.</p>
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		<title>Brazil: A tatoo shows violence banalization</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/09/02/brazil-a-tatoo-shows-violence-banalization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paula Góes</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PE Body Count [pt] brings a picture which shows how much violence is amalgamated with daily life in Brazil.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.pebodycount.com.br/post/postUnico.php?post=926">PE Body Count</a> [pt] brings a picture which shows how much violence is amalgamated with daily life in Brazil.</p>
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		<title>Cape Verde: Pictures of a trip</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/09/02/cape-verde-pictures-of-a-trip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paula Góes</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Redy Wilson Lima [pt] publishes beautiful pictures of a trip through Cape Verde, going from the capital Praia to Assomada and Tarrafal.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://kufrontalidade.blogspot.com/2008/09/percurso-praiaassomadatarrafal.html">Redy Wilson Lima</a> [pt] publishes beautiful pictures of a trip through Cape Verde, going from the capital Praia to Assomada and Tarrafal.</p>
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		<title>Brazil: When the newspaper decides for the electorate</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/09/02/brazil-when-the-newspaper-decides-for-the-electorate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paula Góes</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Florêncio [pt] can&#39;t believe a piece in a newspaper which states that, for the electorate of of Minas Gerais, Brazil, there is no doubt that a certain candidate is the best choice - and this was not an op-ed. &#8220;What the hell is this sentence there? Is the newspaper now to put their opinion [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://blog.danielflorencio.com/2008/09/01/estado-de-minas-em-campanha/">Daniel Florêncio</a> [pt] can&#39;t believe a piece in a newspaper which states that, for the electorate of of Minas Gerais, Brazil, there is no doubt that a certain candidate is the best choice - and this was not an op-ed. &#8220;What the hell is this sentence there? Is the newspaper now to put their opinion in the middle of news pieces?&#8221;The blogger has made <a href="http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=R4oKrj1R91g">a short film</a> about the media bias in that state.</p>
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		<title>Brazil, Egypt: The first day of Ramadan</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/09/02/brazil-egypt-the-first-day-of-ramadan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paula Góes</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Barbrinha [pt], a Brazilian blogger living in Egypt, is writing a Ramadan diary. On fasting for non-muslin people, she says: &#8220;I fasted several times before I was converted, and it has always been my purpose to God, it was me and him and nobody else, I won&#39;t write here what religion says, cos I think [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://barbrinha.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/diario-do-ramadan-1o-dia-de-jejum-ramadan-ou-ramada-2008/">Barbrinha</a> [pt], a Brazilian blogger living in Egypt, is writing a Ramadan diary. On fasting for non-muslin people, she says: &#8220;I fasted several times before I was converted, and it has always been my purpose to God, it was me and him and nobody else, I won&#39;t write here what religion says, cos I think pleasing God doesn&#39;t need to be written in any book, it has to be in your heart, your good attitudes towards the world, this is to please God.</p>
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		<title>Angola: New blog covering the elections in English</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/09/02/angola-new-blog-covering-the-elections-in-english/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paula Góes</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Angola Elections News is a new blog covering the elections in Angola. &#8220;Through this forum we encourage you to talk to other media people, ask questions, post links to other interesting stories, research, facts or information that will help journalists cover the elections from a broad range of angles&#8221;. Don&#39;t miss the interviews in the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://angolanews2008.wordpress.com/">Angola Elections News</a> is a new blog covering the elections in Angola. &#8220;Through this forum we encourage you to talk to other media people, ask questions, post links to other interesting stories, research, facts or information that will help journalists cover the elections from a broad range of angles&#8221;. Don&#39;t miss the interviews in the <a href="http://angolanews2008.wordpress.com/audio/">audio archive</a>, some of them in English.</p>
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		<title>Brazil: Guide to blogging in Portuguese</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/09/01/brazil-guide-to-blogging-in-portuguese/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;So, do you want to have a blog? Are you starting your first blog? Are you still inexperienced in the roads od the blogosphere? Great - this is the guide for you!&#8221;, says   Nospheratt [pt] on releasing a free download guide for blogging in Portuguese with 120 tips showing the ropes to newbies, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;So, do you want to have a blog? Are you starting your first blog? Are you still inexperienced in the roads od the blogosphere? Great - this is the guide for you!&#8221;, says   <a style="cursor: pointer;" title="Posts by Nospheratt" href="http://blosque.com/2008/08/be-a-blog-download-gratis-blogs-pelados-e-sem-roupa-de-gratis.html">Nospheratt</a> [pt] on releasing a free download guide for blogging in Portuguese with 120 tips showing the ropes to newbies, from getting started to monetization.</p>
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		<title>East Timor: On the struggle of the diaspora</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/09/01/east-timor-on-the-struggle-of-the-diaspora/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The East Timor sons in other countries have fully contributed to the visibility of the atrocities that were happening in the country to our brothers. It was another kind of struggle, a much less terrible one, different of the fight of those who stayed, but it was still a fight for East Timor&#8221;, says Ana [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The East Timor sons in other countries have fully contributed to the visibility of the atrocities that were happening in the country to our brothers. It was another kind of struggle, a much less terrible one, different of the fight of those who stayed, but it was still a fight for East Timor&#8221;, says <a href="http://timorlorosaenacao.blogspot.com/2008/09/por-timor-sempre-por-timor.html">Ana Loro Metan</a> [pt] asking people not to fight against each other on blog comments.</p>
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		<title>Macau: Olympic winners parade</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/09/01/macau-olympic-winners-parade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leocardo [pt] reports that the 63 Chinese medal winners have arrived today in Macau, part of a tour of China that, accorging to the blogger, made they look like &#8220;monkeys in a circus&#8221;: &#8220;Couldn&#39;t they have rested a few more days before this enormous embarrassment on the news across regional and foreign press? Is this [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://bairrodooriente.blogspot.com/2008/09/campees-olmpicos-em-macau.html">Leocardo</a> [pt] reports that the 63 Chinese medal winners have arrived today in Macau, part of a tour of China that, accorging to the blogger, made they look like &#8220;monkeys in a circus&#8221;: &#8220;Couldn&#39;t they have rested a few more days before this enormous embarrassment on the news across regional and foreign press? Is this the right way to demonstrate the unity and love for the SAR?&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Brazil: Useless newspapers</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/09/01/brazil-useless-newspapers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Sorry. I do not want to look like a pedant. But after some time outside Brazil - and especially after a a time geting information about Brazil through the Internet - I can only lament the quality of Brazilian newspapers&#8221;, says Luiz Carlos Azenha [pt] pointing out mistakes to bias on Folha de São Paulo, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Sorry. I do not want to look like a pedant. But after some time outside Brazil - and especially after a a time geting information about Brazil through the Internet - I can only lament the quality of Brazilian newspapers&#8221;, says <a href="http://www.viomundo.com.br/opiniao/a-folha-imprestavel/">Luiz Carlos Azenha</a> [pt] pointing out mistakes to bias on Folha de São Paulo, the biggest Brazilian newspaper.</p>
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		<title>Angola: Four days to go to the polls</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/09/01/angola-five-days-to-go-to-the-polls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Angolans have blogged today about the elections. Pitigrili [pt] says that despite the atmosphere of peace, &#8220;foreign journalists covering the elections still have prejudices. Alex Duval Smith, from the British &#8220;The Guardian&#8221; and writing for the &#8220;Observer&#8221;, has an interesting story but he finishes it off with observations that show reserves that things may [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many Angolans have blogged today about the elections. <a href="http://pitigrili-de-luanda.blogspot.com/2008/08/faltam-s-cinco-dias.html">Pitigrili</a> [pt] says that despite the atmosphere of peace, &#8220;foreign journalists covering the elections still have prejudices. Alex Duval Smith, from the British &#8220;The Guardian&#8221; and writing for the &#8220;Observer&#8221;, has an <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/31/angola.elections">interesting story</a> but he finishes it off with observations that show reserves that things may still go wrong&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>Angola: On the illegal occupation of a residential plot by a bank</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/30/angola-on-the-illegal-occupation-of-a-residential-plot-by-a-bank/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gil Gonçalves [pt] blows the whistle on the occupation by the Millennium Bank of a residential building in Luanda, Angola. &#8220;How does the Millennium Bank and (contractor) Teixeira Duarte SA managed to illegally steal a plot of the land? With so much at ease, it can only be someone usually linked to the Republic&#39;s Presidency.&#8221;
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		<title>Angola: Going, going, gone!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clara Onofre</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The historic Kinaxixi Market of Luanda, the Angolan answer to Corbusian modernism in architecture, has been knocked down to make way for a modern shopping centre. Is this a sign of the times or an example of the devaluation of heritage in the face of economic power? Clara Onofre reports.]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Kinaxixe Square in 1969 with Kinaxixi Market at the background. Picture by <a rel="track:track_pagetag=/page/photo/goodtimes/goodtimes&amp;track_action=/PeopleActions/Profile" href="http://community.webshots.com/user/victor1santos/profile">Victor Santos</a>. See his <a href="http://good-times.webshots.com/album/558669958IeNCAM">Luanda in the 70&#39;s</a> photo gallery.</strong></p>
<p>Similar to what happened to the beautiful Palace D. Ana Joaquina, the historic Kinaxixi Market was knocked down after a long wait, time in which proposals ranged from restoration to demolition. Many, like <a href="http://estradasdoladocontrario.blogspot.com/2008/08/um-dia-o-kinaxixi-vem-abaixo.html">Diuska</a> [pt], still do not believe that they saw the market being destroyed:</p>
<blockquote><p>Esse emblemático local de Luanda, de onde a minha avó recorda os cheiros e as cores de que tanto fala. Onde ia comprar as suas frutas, antes de ir para casa no Largo Ferreira do Amaral, logo ali ao lado, está a cair de uma forma cruel. De uma forma imposta, que não era suposto ser. O Kinaxixi tem o inalienável direito de cair por si próprio!<br />
Nunca pensei que fosse ver deuses e homens aliados numa só missão: deitar o Kinaxixi abaixo. Não sei quem engendrou este esquema, não sei quem esteve na origem desta acção, mas com certeza não me vou esquecer do boquiaberto ar dos transeuntes a olharem o pó a subir no ar.</p></blockquote>
<p class="translation">This symbolic place in Luanda from where my grandmother recalls and tells us about smells and colors coming. Where she would go to buy fruit, before going back home to Largo Ferreira do Amaral, right next to it [the market], is falling down in such a cruel way. An imposed way, a way it was not supposed to be. Kinaxixi has the inalienable right to fall on its own! I never thought that I would see gods and men together on a single mission: knock Kinaxixi down. I don&#39;t know who plotted this, I don&#39;t know who was behind this decision, but of course I will not forget the stupefied looks of passersby  watching the dust rising in the air.</p>
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<p><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-49262" title="dsc06741" src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/dsc06741.jpg" alt="" width="474" height="355" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Exclusive photo taken on the day the Kinaxixi Market was being knocked down, kindly provided by </strong><strong> José Manuel Lima da Silva, Flickr user <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/kool2bbop/">Kool2bBop</a></strong></p>
<p>Up to 2003, this historic site housed Luanda&#39;s large market of groceries, but things began to change after the withdrawal and transfer of local traders to other markets. At the time, there were talks of renovation and this was what traders and the population expected to happen, but two years later the market was doomed to abandonment. It was then that the news of the sale to a private company broke.</p>
<p>This was followed by the first project developed by a company with Portuguese partners, which envisaged the partial destruction of the market. For whatever reason, unknown to the general public, the original project led to the plan to build a <a href="http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=648044">shopping mall</a> in association with Macon group - a public transport company. The investment for the shopping center was budgeted at around 30 million dollars for a 20 year lease.</p>
<p>According to <a href="http://blogdangola.blogspot.com/2008/07/j-divulguei-em-vrios-sitios-na-net.html">Anabela Quelhas</a> [pt], who has been campaigning for the renovation of Kinaxixi since 2006, the process of demolition is almost always the same, and reflects the devaluation of heritage in the face of economic power. Not only in Angola does it happen in the following way:</p>
<blockquote><p>Falta de manutenção<br />
Não adaptação às novas exigências.<br />
Conflitos intencionais com o tráfego envolvente.<br />
Concorrência selvagem dos shopings<br />
Fiscalização exagerada<br />
Aceleração da degradação<br />
Acumulação de lixo<br />
Por os média a falar nas alternativas e a manipular a opinião publica<br />
Dar visibilidade à degradação do espaço físico<br />
Esquecer o que dizem meia dúzia de intelectuais<br />
Proporcionar que o edificio seja suporte de grafittis e publicidade<br />
Permitir a ocupação ilegal de preferência por marginais<br />
Demolição ou incêndio</p></blockquote>
<p class="translation">Lack of maintenance<br />
No compliance with new regulations.<br />
Intentional conflicts with surrounding traffic.<br />
Wild competition with shopping centres<br />
Exaggerated surveillance<br />
Acceleration of degradation<br />
Accumulation of garbage<br />
Having the media talk about alternatives and to manipulate public opinion<br />
Giving visibility to the degradation of physical space<br />
Forgetting about what a handful of intellectuals say<br />
Providing that the building is used for advertising and graffiti<br />
Allowing illegal occupation, preferably by scoundrels<br />
Demolition or fire</p>
<p>Opinions are divided. The Luandaners dissatisfaction is reflected in this text, from <a href="http://mankakoso.blogspot.com/2006/05/centro-komercial-kinaxixi.html">Mankakoso&#39;s</a> [pt] blog:</p>
<blockquote><p>Não sei como querem ter empreendimentos do primeiro mundo, coisas da mais alta tecnologia quando não conseguem resolver problemas da idade média como o saneamento básico. Estou já a ver o filme. À noite o shopping todo iluminado e os prédios ao redor às escuras e fedorentos. De dia os transeuntes feito um enxame de moscas à volta do shopping e as varandas dos cúbicos (casas) com os estendais prenhes de lençóis encardidos e esburacados. As zungueiras (vendedoras de rua) a venderem sacos de plásticos, biquínis, sandes de atum, chouriçadas e os miúdos da rua a lavarem os carros no parque de estacionamento do shopping Kinaxixi. As lojas do shopping sem telefones para puderem mandar faxes ou emails aos seus fornecedores no estrangeiro e não só. As casas do shopping sem água, etc. Amigos, precisamos de shopping sim senhor. Mas antes necessitamos ter água canalizada sempre, luz todos os dias e comunicações. Precisamos ter estradas asfaltadas ao invés de esburacadas para permitir maior fluidez de tráfego rodoviário de modo a que os camiões com bens para o shopping não fiquem encravados nos chamados engarrafamentos rotineiros desta cidade. Ouvi vários comentários sobre a construção do shopping Kinaxixi sobre os milhões de dólares que vão ser gastos e concluí: nós somos vaidosos. Qual é a importância deste shopping para aquele angolano sem escola, sem hospital, sem luz eléctrica e sem água corrente?</p></blockquote>
<p class="translation">I don&#39;t know how they want to have first world [standards for] business, highest technological gadgets when they can&#39;t even solve medieval problems such as that of basic sanitation. I get the picture. At night, the whole shopping centre will be illuminated and the buildings around it will be in the dark, and smelly. In the day time, passersby will be like a swarm of flies bustling around the shopping while the cubic (houses) balconies have lines full of grimy and holey linen. Zungueiras (street vendors) selling plastic bags, bikinis, tuna  sandwiches, chorizo, and kids on the streets washing the cars at the Kinaxixi Shopping car park. The stores in the shopping centre will have no phones so that faxes or emails can be sent to their suppliers abroad and beyond. Boxes in the shopping centre with no water, etc&#8230; Friends, we need a shopping centre indeed. But first we need to have tap water, electricity every day and communication. We need paved roads instead of pot-holed ones to allow a greater flow of traffic, so that trucks with goods for the shopping centre are not stuck in the so-called routine traffic jams in this city. I heard several comments about the construction of the Kinaxixi shopping centre and the millions of dollars that will be spent and concluded: we&#39;re vain. What is the importance of this shopping centre for the Angolan who has no school, no hospital, no electricity and is without running water?</p>
<p>Angolan and Portuguese architects are horrified at this historic massacre and although they protested against the demolition and <a href="http://flipvinagre.blogspot.com/2008/08/h-que-defender-o-patrimnio-em-angola.html">organized a petition</a> [pt], their voices were not heard and they could do nothing to save the market. Manuel Correia Fernandes, Portuguese architect said to the Portuguese newspaper Público that &#8220;we can only weep tears of all sizes at this barbaric act. It was a piece of architecture with a huge amount of quality, a beautiful copy of Corbusian modernism, but with great autonomy.&#8221;<br />
<img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-49264" title="dsc06760" src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/dsc06760.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Exclusive photo taken on the day the Kinaxixi Market was being knocked down, kindly provided by </strong><strong> José Manuel Lima da Silva, Flickr user <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/kool2bbop/">Kool2bBop</a></strong><strong></strong></p>
<p>Kinaxixi Market was built in the 50&#39;s under Vasco Vieira da Costa&#39;s baton, Portuguese architect trained at the School of Fine Arts of Oporto, Portugal. He travelled to Paris and worked there for some time with the French architect Le Corbusier. The City Market of Luanda was his first work in the Angolan capital. <a href="http://kianda.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/mercado-do-kinaxixe/">Kianda</a> [pt], who grew up going to market with her father on Saturday mornings, recalls:</p>
<blockquote><p>É um edifício referenciado nos livros de arquitectura universal como uma referência conceptual e construtiva, o edificio reflecte os elementos base do pensamento sobre arquitectura tropical, ou seja a ventilação cruzada, o recurso ao grande pé direito, a luminosidade controlada, as protecções a poente no percurso da incidência solar, as relações espaço/ventilação, humidade/conforto térmico.</p></blockquote>
<p class="translation">It is a building listed in the books of architecture as a universal conceptual and constructive reference, the building reflects the basic elements of thought on tropical architecture, that&#39;s to say, the ventilation across, the use of big, high ceilings, brightness control, protections from the west path of solar incidence, a space/ventilation relation, moisture/thermal comfort.</p>
<p>As I said in the opening lines of this text, the Angolan government did something similar about ten years ago to Ana Joaquina Palace, which had been built during the eighteenth century and classified as &#8220;Property of Public Interest&#8221; in 1951, being subject to technical appraisal by UNESCO experts some years before due to its stressed importance. Despite the protests, from historians and architecture specialists and technicians, the government carried out the destruction of the palace only to build a replica shortly after, where today the Provincial Court of Luanda is housed.</p>
<p><strong>Divided opinions</strong></p>
<p>Some believe that these are signs of modern times, such as <a href="http://kianda.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/mercado-do-kinaxixe/#comment-1381">OTB</a> [pt], one of over 60 commentators o<a href="http://kianda.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/mercado-do-kinaxixe/">n Kianda&#39;s post</a> mentioned above:</p>
<blockquote><p>Quanto ao Kinaxixe. Chão com ele. Os paises têm de se modernizar. Deixemo-nos de lamechiches e de prendermo-nos a antiguidades. O mundo é dinamico, a vida é dinamica. Deite-se abaixo e construa-se algo que seja util aos Angolanos. Ana Joaquina foi o inicio, Kinaxixe a seguir e outros irão abaixo para termos uma Angola Moderna e sem lembranças de um passado condescendência servil.</p></blockquote>
<p class="translation">On the Kinaxixe. Down with it. Countries need to modernize. Let us stop the slush and sinking to antiques. The world is dynamic, life is dynamic. Down with it and build something that is useful to the Angolans. Ana Joaquina was the beginning, Kinaxixe next and others will be knocked down so that something useful to Modern Angola takes place and without memories of a condescending servile past.</p>
<p><a href="http://morrodamaianga.blogspot.com/2008/08/komba-pelo-kinaxixe.html">Wilson Dadá</a> [pt], on the other hand, says that one thing doesn&#39;t override the other, and with the demolition it was the rampant property speculation that won the situation:</p>
<blockquote><p>Para quem como eu cresceu passando todos os domingos por aquele mercado em direcção a classe central da Igreja Metodista, não é fácil aceitar um tamanho atentado contra o património da nossa cidade.<br />
Não estamos, obviamente, contra o surgimento dos shoppings nem dos arranha-céus, mas não podemos aceitar que eles nasçam destruindo tudo quanto é história e memória desta cidade, num país, onde o que mais existe é espaço de sobra o desenvolvimento de novas urbanizações, para a edificação de novas cidades.</p></blockquote>
<p class="translation">For those who like me grew up going every Sunday to that market on the way to the Methodist Church class, it is not easy to accept a huge attack on the heritage of our city.<br />
We are not, of course, opposed to the emergence of shopping malls or the skyscrapers, but we cannot accept that they are built destroying all the history and memory of this city, in a country where there is plenty of room for new developments, for the construction of new cities.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Exclusive photo taken on the day the Kinaxixi Market was being knocked down, kindly provided by </strong><strong> José Manuel Lima da Silva, Flickr user <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/kool2bbop/">Kool2bBop</a></strong></p>
<p class="contributors">Originally written in Portuguese, translation into English by <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/author/paulagoes/">Paula Góes</a></p>
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