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		<title>Cape Verde: On reaching the 3rd place in the Ibrahim Index</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[João Branco comments on Cape Verde&#39;s achievement going two points up to the respected 3rd place in the Ibrahim Index of African Governance. &#8220;This is an important piece of news, given the fairly rigorous and serious way - at least so it seems - that they come up with this classification. Note that Cape Verde [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cafemargoso.blogspot.com/2008/10/medalha-de-bronze.html">João Branco</a> comments on Cape Verde&#39;s achievement going two points up to the respected 3rd place in the <a href="http://www.moibrahimfoundation.org/the-index.asp">Ibrahim Index of African Governance</a>. &#8220;This is an important piece of news, given the fairly rigorous and serious way - at least so it seems - that they come up with this classification. Note that Cape Verde is only behind Mauritius and Sheychelles.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Cape Verde: Fuel prices on the rise - why?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The price of crude oil is plunging, but the population of Cape Verde has been faced with price rises of every sub product of oil, and the news ahead is not optimistic. Bloggers want to know why and provide the Government with some suggestions.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-50763" title="deco" src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/deco.gif" alt="" />Cape Verdean blogger <a href="http://bocadetubarao.blogspot.com/2008/09/cabo-verde-aonde-vamos.html">Neu Lopes</a> [pt] wonders why fuel prices in Cape Verde keep on rising. The most recent adjustments in the country saw an increase of 21% for oil, 15% for petrol, 10% for diesel, and 5% for gas, and the population now expects a domino effect on the price of all other goods, considering that increases have also been announced for transport, energy and water. All this at a time when the <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/hotStocksNews/idUSTRE48N1ZU20080924">price of crude oil is plunging</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Segundo a ARE (Agência de Regulação Económica), “o lote importado que serve de base a esta tabela de preços foi adquirido quando os valores estavam ainda em alta”. Pergunto agora: se os valores estivessem baixos quando foi adquirido o referido lote, qual a garantia que os preços não ficariam mais elevados caso o contexto internacional fosse o contrário do actual? De qualquer forma os bolsos dos cabo-verdianos é que pagam tudo isso.</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">According to the <a href="http://are.cv/">ARE</a> (Economic Regulatory Agency, pt), &#8220;the imported oil, which serves as the basis for this price list, was purchased when the prices were still high&#8221;. Now I wonder: if the prices were low when that oil was purchased, what guarantee do we have that prices wouldn&#39;t be even higher if the international context was the opposite of today&#39;s? In any case, it is the Cape Verdeans&#39; pockets that pay.</div>
<p><a href="http://ludgerocv.blogspot.com/2008/09/o-cartel-dos-hidrocarbonetos.html">Ludgerocv</a> [pt] has even more questions:</p>
<blockquote><p>Perco as estribeiras quando a ARE, em vez de fixar PREÇOS MÁXIMOS, apresenta preços obrigatórios. Onde diabo estamos nós? A ARE deu agora para patrocinar a formação de CARTEL? As duas petrolíferas compram os combustíveis ao mesmo preço, na mesma ocasião, os lotes chegam na mesma altura, têm as mesmas despesas, etc.? Como é que diante de uma importação de uma das petrolíferas, se obtêm dados para fixar preços de venda ao público válidos para ambas?</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">I lose my temper when the ARE, instead of setting maximum prices, offers mandatory ones. Where the hell are we? Is the ARE sponsoring the formation of a CARTEL? Have the two oil providers purchased fuel at the same price, at the same time, have the shipment arrived at the same time, did they cost the same, and so on. How come that from the import history of one of the oil providers, they have data to determine the retail selling prices for both companies?</div>
<p>On publishing a piece of news about protests that will happen in Portugal against the increase in the cost of living, <a href="http://kufrontalidade.blogspot.com/2008/09/porque-no-aqui-tambm.html">Redy Wilson Lima</a> [pt] says that it is high time the Cape Verdean population started to stand up against these price rises:</p>
<blockquote><p>Não chegou a hora de passarmos à acção também em Cabo Verde invés de muitos bla, bla, bla? É que se continuarmos conformados, o Estado nunca parará de nos kasu bodiar.</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">Isn&#39;t it time we started to take action in Cape Verde instead of so much blah, blah, blah? If we carry on resigning ourselves, the State will never stop ripping us off.</div>
<p><a href="http://nospraia.blogspot.com/2008/09/aiiiiii-o-combustvel-voltou-subir.html">Nos Praia</a> [pt], at the beginning of the month, called the Government&#39;s attention to a long-term solution: Cape Verde needs to find ways to minimize oil dependency:</p>
<blockquote><p>Vivemos num país extremamente pobre e que depende em larga escala da conjuntua externa pasa o se sustento. A nossa produção é &#8220;caseira&#8221; e tudo que comemos e bebemos vem de fora. Portanto, caros governantes, não obstante a especificidade do país e da economia mundial, é necessário criar alternativas à dependencia do petróleo. Não precisamos inventar a roda. Existem exemplos espalhados pelo mundo e basta sermos perspicazes para resolvermos os problemas desta terra.</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">We live in an extremely poor country, which depends heavily upon the external situation for its provision. Our production is &#8220;domestic&#8221; and everything we eat and drink comes from outside. So, dear leaders, despite the specificity of the country and the world economy, it is necessary to create alternatives to the oil dependency. We need not invent the wheel. There are examples around the world and we just need to be sharp to solve this land&#39;s problems.</div>
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		<title>Lusosphere: Saramago, 85 years, Nobel Laureate, Blogger</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week ago, the 1998 Nobel Prize winner for literature - the first and only Portuguese language writer - started his own blog: Saramago's Notebook, which he describes as his "infinite page on the Internet", has been welcomed by bloggers from many Portuguese speaking countries. But what does it take to become a blogger?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><strong>Mexendo nuns quantos papéis que já perderam a frescura da novidade, encontrei um artigo sobre Lisboa escrito há uns quantos anos, e, não me envergonho de confessá-lo, emocionei-me. Talvez porque não se trate realmente de um artigo, mas de uma carta de amor, de amor a Lisboa. Decidi então partilhá-la com os meus leitores e amigos tornando-a outra vez pública, agora na página infinita de internet e com ela inaugurar o meu espaço pessoal neste blog.</strong></p></blockquote>
<div class="translation"><strong>Shuffling through some papers that have already lost their freshness of novelty, I found an article about Lisbon written a number of years ago, and I am not ashamed to confess, I was moved. Perhaps because it is not really an article but a love letter, love for Lisbon. So I decided to share it with my readers and friends making it public again, now on an endless page on the Internet with which I inaugurate my personal space on this blog.</strong></div>
<p>These are the first lines of Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize laureate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saramago">José Saramago</a>&#39;s blog &#8220;<a href="http://caderno.josesaramago.org/2008/09/page/6/">O Caderno de Saramago</a>&#8221; [Saramago&#39;s Notebook, available in <a href="http://caderno.josesaramago.org/">Portuguese</a> and in <a href="http://cuaderno.josesaramago.org/">Spanish</a>], launched on September 15 initially on the Saramago Foundation&#39;s website and now on the Wordpress platform. Since them, Saramago has blogged on his &#8220;infinite page on the Internet&#8221; about the <a href="http://caderno.josesaramago.org/2008/09/17/perdao-para-darwin/">Catholic Church&#39;s appology to Darwin</a>, <a href="http://caderno.josesaramago.org/2008/09/17/george-bush-ou-a-idade-da-mentira/">George Bush and the credit crunch</a>, <a href="http://caderno.josesaramago.org/2008/09/17/berlusconi-c%C2%AA/">Berlusconi&#39;s fortune</a>, <a href="http://caderno.josesaramago.org/2008/09/18/ao-cemiterio-de-pulianas/">Pulianas</a> (a cemitery in Granada province), and <a href="http://caderno.josesaramago.org/2008/09/19/aznar-o-oraculo/">global warming</a>. <a href="http://caderno.josesaramago.org/2008/09/23/divorcios-e-bibliotecas/">On his last post</a>, yesterday, Saramago wrote about the future of family libraries when couples get divorced.</p>
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<p>They are all great articles for the joy of the Lusosphera: bloggers from virtually every Portuguese speaking country welcomed him to the world of blogs (and have linked to, or copied and pasted his posts freely). <a href="http://devezenquandario.blogspot.com/2008/09/saramago-blogueiro.html">Aline</a> [pt], from Mozambique, was a little skeptical to start with. Would it really be  the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for literature behind those online words?</p>
<blockquote><p>Fiquei confusa&#8230; será que é mesmo o JOSÉ SARAMAGO??? Isso não é dele&#8230; muito estranho! Fui conferir: era ele mesmo! Imaginem o autor de A Caverna e todos aqueles outros livros maravilhosos virando um blogueiro, como um simples mortal, como nós! Como não tive tempo de ler tudo ontem, hoje acordei e, sem tirar o pijama, liguei o computador. Tomei café lendo o Caderno de Saramago. Fantástico! Ele promete escrever diariamente. E está cumprindo a promessa, desde segunda-feira já são três posts.</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">I was confused&#8230; Would it be really José Saramago? It isn&#39;t of his&#8230; very strange! I went there: it was really him! Imagine the author of The Cave and all those other wonderful books has become a blogger, like a mere mortal, like us! Because I didn&#39;t have time to read everything yesterday, today I woke up and before taking off my pyjamas, I turned the computer on. I had coffee reading Saramago&#39;s Notebook. Fantastic! He promises to write every day. And he has fulfilled the promise, there have been three posts since Monday.</div>
<p>As of now, there are 8 posts. From Portugal, <a href="http://dept-linguas.blogspot.com/2008/09/saramago-em-blog.html">Vasco Corisco</a> [pt] believes he too can recognize the writer behind the blogger:</p>
<blockquote><p>Na secção O Caderno de Saramago temos acesso à escrita de opinião do autor na primeira pessoa, no tom marcadamente político ao qual estão acostumados aqueles que conhecem os seus escritos.</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">On Saramago&#39;s Notebook section we have access to the written opinion of the author in the first person, in a highly political tone which those who know his writings are accustomed to.</div>
<p>Also from Portugal, <a href="http://ninguemle.blogspot.com/2008/09/o-caderno-de-saramago.html">João</a> [pt] was very pleased to welcome Saramago to the blogosphere:</p>
<blockquote><p>Embora desconfie que é um blogue completamente diferente deste, porque será certamente um lido por muita gente, fica a sensação de que Sara<span>mago se juntou cá ao grupo dos que têm um cantinho algures na Internet para escrever desabafos. </span>Não deixa de ser estranho ter ouvido contar, há bem pouco tempo, que Saramago terá dito que jamais escreveria sem ser à mão. Depois passou a só escrever numa máquina e, agora, desconfio que utilize um computador para o fazer.</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">Although I suspect that his blog is completely different from this one (of mine), because it will certainly be read by a lot of people, there is the feeling that Saramago has joined the group of those who have a corner somewhere on the Internet to write disencumbered. It is a bit strange as I have heard, not so long ago, that Saramago had said he would never write if not by hand. After that he just started writing on a typewriter, and now I suspect that he uses a computer to do so.</div>
<p>From Cabo Verde, <a href="http://bocadetubarao.blogspot.com/2008/09/jos-saramago-lana-blog.html">Neu Lopes</a> [pt], himself a new blogger, takes the opportunity to spread the word about Saramago&#39;s new book, <a href="http://blog.josesaramago.org/maineng.html">The Elephant’s Journey</a>, <span class="post-author">which is expected to reach bookshops by end of the year. </span>Apparently not a big fan of Saramago, another Cape Verdean blogger <a href="http://ziqzra.blogspot.com/2008/09/blogosfera.html">Miguel Barbosa</a> [pt] leaves his two cents:</p>
<blockquote><p>Vamos torcer para os posts não serem tão chatos quanto os livros, hehehe&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">Let&#39;s hope that his posts are not as boring as his books, lol</div>
<p>Moving to Brazil&#39;s blogosphere, <a href="http://oiretemeh.blogspot.com/2008/09/cadernais.html">Hemetério</a> was a little disappointed that Saramago had joined the online tribe, but was happy to find such sharp texts, which he printed out and left on the bus for other people to read and leave on the bus in turn:</p>
<blockquote><p>Achava que o venerável escritor português era avesso à tecnologia, que defendia o arcaísmo de sua labuta em máquinas de escrever como o japonês perdido numa ilha distante, que devotara sua vida a proteger o forte, anos depois da guerra ter acabado.</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">I thought that the venerable Portuguese writer was averse to technology, that he defended the archaism of his toil at the type writer like the Japanese lost on a distant island, who devotes his life to protecting the fortress, long after the war ended.</div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-50477 aligncenter" title="corifeu" src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/corifeu.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>&#8220;Casting pearls before swine?&#8221;. Brazilian blogger <a href="http://oiretemeh.blogspot.com/2008/09/cadernais.html">Hemetério</a> [pt] printed out the post about President Bush, who &#8220;expurgated truth from the world to, in its place, bring the era of lies to fruition&#8221;, to leave on the bus</strong></p>
<p>On the other hand, <a href="http://andrelemos.info/com104/2008/09/o-caderno-de-saramago.html">Lara</a> [pt] thought it was interesting to see a renowned writer as such beginning to use this type of tool. She chips in:</p>
<blockquote><p>É um bom sinal de que a comunicação pela internet não está apenas ganhando espaço por sua agilidade, mas também pela facilidade e amplitude com que atinge o público. Comentaram comigo, inclusive, que fazer um blog pode ser só uma tentativa de Saramago de ser cool. Mas, minha gente, Saramago tem 85 anos. Uma pessoa de 85 anos não liga para ser cool.</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">It is a good sign that communication through the Internet is not only growing because of its agility, but also for the ease and amplitude with which it reaches the public. Someone has suggested to me that this idea to open a blog can only be Saramago&#39;s attempt to be cool. But folks, Saramago is 85 years old. An 85 year old person doesn&#39;t bother about being cool.</div>
<p>Perhaps Saramago doesn&#39;t need to be cool, but this itch to join cyberspace might be called marketing. Apart from his forthcoming book, his well-known novel Blindness <a href="http://blindness-themovie.com/">is about to be released in the cinemas</a> as a movie by <span>Fernando Meirelles (also a <a href="http://blogdeblindness.blogspot.com/">blogger</a> [pt]) </span>starring Mark Ruffalo and Julianne Moore. On these lines, Portuguese blogger <a href="http://privilegiosdesisifo.blogspot.com/2008/09/gog-e-saramagog-o-gro-brufo-bloga.html">Miguel Drummond de Castro</a> [pt] reminds his public that not even a Nobel Prize winner can be turned into a blogger overnight:</p>
<blockquote><p>Há aqui uma confusão antropo-cibernética de primeiro grau. A de crer que a utlização de uma maquineta - no caso o computador ligado à rede - transforma imediatamente a pessoa num &#8220;verdadeiro&#8221; blogger. A maquineta, qual deus, confere de imediato a graça divina. A pessoa que no dia anterior não sabia nada de blogs, que não fazia a menor ideia dia sobre o que é um template ou um Html, de repente, por infusão divina da santíssima técnica, já se comporta como um &#8220;verdadeiro blogger&#8221;. De um momento para outro adquiriu todas as competências.</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">There is an antropo-cybernetics confusion of the first degree. Believing that the use of a little machine - in this case a computer connected to the Internet - immediately turns a person into a &#8220;real&#8221; blogger. The machine, like God, gives an immediate blessing. The person, who a day earlier did not know anything about blogs, who had not the slightest idea about what a template or html is, suddenly, by a holy infusion of divine technique, behaves like a &#8220;true blogger.&#8221; From one minute to another he acquired all the skills.</div>
<p>Does it matter? <a href="http://ressurgenciaicamiaba.blogspot.com/2008/09/blog-do-saramago.html">Deborah Icamiaba</a> [pt] likes it for being quality online reading:</p>
<blockquote><p>Que frescor tem sido a leitura do recém-criado blog do Saramago!<br />
Eu já gostava de seus livros e ele virou ídolo quando tornou-se o único escritor de porte a exigir das editoras que seus livros fossem publicados em papel reciclado.<br />
Quando a gente está na net e quer ler algo legal, fica procurando e não acha, vale a pena passar por lá: http://caderno.josesaramago.org/ - tem sempre algo interessante sendo dito de maneira singela e poderosa.</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">How refreshing reading Saramago&#39;s newly created blog has been!<br />
I&#39;ve liked his books and I became a fan when he became the only big writer to request publishers publish his books on recycled paper.<br />
When we are on the net and want to read something nice, when we look but don&#39;t find it, it is worthwhile going there: http://caderno.josesaramago.org/ - there is always something interesting being said, in a so simple and powerful way.</div>
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		<title>Cape Verde: Pictures of a trip</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Cape Verde: Blogger takes picture of filthy hospital lavatory</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/28/cape-verde-blogger-takes-picture-of-filthy-hospital-lavatory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Cape Verde: Happy birthday to Cesária Évora</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/27/cape-verde-happy-birthday-to-cesaria-evora/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ João Branco [pt] pays homage to Cape Verdean singer Cesária Évora who is 67 today. He quotes her: &#8220;I sing for pleasure, I don&#39;t believe in dreams or in destination, what makes me happy is to know I spent years of suffering for the life I have today. In Mindelo, we say that it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="post-author"> <a href="http://cafemargoso.blogspot.com/2008/08/caf-comemorativo.html">João Branco</a> [pt] pays homage to Cape Verdean singer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ces%C3%A1ria_%C3%89vora">Cesária Évora</a> who is 67 today. He quotes her: &#8220;</span>I sing for pleasure, I don&#39;t believe in dreams or in destination, what makes me happy is to know I spent years of suffering for the life I have today. In Mindelo, we say that it is better to drink the poison first and then the honey. Now I&#39;m drinking the honey&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Cape Verde: Counting the Olympic medals for Africa</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/25/cape-verde-counting-the-olympic-medals-for-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cape Verdean blogger Jorge Tolentino [pt] details the medals that the African countries brought back home from China and highlights: &#8220;In an overall total of 40 medals for the continent, 17 were won by women.&#8221;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cape Verdean blogger <a href="http://passageiroemtransito.blogspot.com/2008/08/medalhas-para-frica.html">Jorge Tolentino</a> [pt] details the medals that the African countries brought back home from China and highlights: &#8220;In an overall total of 40 medals for the continent, 17 were won by women.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Cape Verde: Stolen gold olympic medal</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/23/cape-verde-stolen-gold-olympic-medal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abraão Vicente [pt] on the son of Cape Verde who won a gold medal for Portugal: &#8220;Nelson Évora won the gold medal and he is Portuguese. That is it. Did you see any little Cape Verde flag, if he took some symbol to express his Creole tribute? No? I didn&#39;t. Let us stop it. Yes, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://alamarginal.blogspot.com/2008/08/cabo-verdeo-ladro-de-medalhas.html">Abraão Vicente</a> [pt] on the son of Cape Verde who won a gold medal for Portugal: &#8220;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_%C3%89vora">Nelson Évora</a> won the gold medal and he is Portuguese. That is it. Did you see any little Cape Verde flag, if he took some symbol to express his Creole tribute? No? I didn&#39;t. Let us stop it. Yes, it would beautiful if he had run with national colours, but let&#39;s be honest: even if he was really from Cape Verde, with the great encouragement for sports that exists in this country, he would have at most won… not sure, maybe the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Silvester_Road_Race">Saint Silvester Road Race</a>.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Cape Verde: Newspaper closing down - for holidays!</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/12/cape-verde-newspaper-closing-down-for-holidays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[João Branco [pt] comments on a local newspaper&#39;s decision to close down for a month holidays. &#8220;In the past there were excuses such as the Electra power outages, lack of paper, etc. Now they bring it out into the open and with no reservations: everyone will rest. The readers can wait.&#8221;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="post-author"><a href="http://cafemargoso.blogspot.com/2008/08/dois-cafs-curtos.html">João Branco</a> [pt] comments on a local newspaper&#39;s decision to close down for a month holidays. &#8220;</span>In the past there were excuses such as the Electra power outages, lack of paper, etc. Now they bring it out into the open and with no reservations: everyone will rest. The readers can wait.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Cape Verde: To be or not to be African</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/04/cape-verde-to-be-or-not-to-be-african/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cape Verdean blogger Cesar Schofield Cardoso [pt] reflects on what to be African means. &#8220;In our case, to take the African-ness on is to take on a large, majority inheritance. This is by never forgetting that we have so much of European, American, Asian…&#8221;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cape Verdean blogger <a href="http://bianda.blogspot.com/2008/08/to-be-african-or-not-to-be.html">Cesar Schofield Cardoso</a> [pt] reflects on what to be African means. &#8220;In our case, to take the African-ness on is to take on a large, majority inheritance. This is by never forgetting that we have so much of European, American, Asian…&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Cape Verde: On foreign policy and diaspora</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/02/cape-verde-on-foreign-policy-and-diaspora/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miguel Cruz Sousa [pt] analyzes the Cape Verdean foreign policy and the country&#39;s relationship with its diaspora. &#8220;Unemployment, social inequality, insecurity, low wages and the risk of disruption prevail here in the country. In the diaspora, there are persecution, discrimination, employment insecurity, unemployment, xenophobia and discrimination, arbitrary arrests and indifference of the Cape Verdean government; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://olhofuturo.blogspot.com/2008/08/estado-da-nao-radiografia-sobre.html">Miguel Cruz Sousa</a> [pt] analyzes the Cape Verdean foreign policy and the country&#39;s relationship with its diaspora. &#8220;Unemployment, social inequality, insecurity, low wages and the risk of disruption prevail here in the country. In the diaspora, there are persecution, discrimination, employment insecurity, unemployment, xenophobia and discrimination, arbitrary arrests and indifference of the Cape Verdean government; There is double exclusion, in the real meaning of the word, from the host countries and from the birth place of more than 900 thousand Cape Verdeans who live and work in over 25 countries around the world&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>Cape Verde: Blog for Education</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/07/31/cape-verde-blog-for-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the African Woman Day and to mark the date a new blog has been launched in Cape Verde: Blog pela Educação [Blog for Education, pt], where a group of bloggers aim to collect and spread information regarding the country&#39;s mentality of banning pregnant girls from schools - and challenge it.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today is the African Woman Day and to mark the date a new blog has been launched in Cape Verde: <a href="http://direitoaeducacao.blogspot.com/">Blog pela Educação</a> [Blog for Education, pt], where a group of bloggers aim to collect and spread information regarding the country&#39;s mentality of <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/06/14/cape-verde-teenage-pregnant-and-banned-from-school/">banning pregnant girls from schools</a> - and challenge it.</p>
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		<title>Cape Verde: No money for lifeguards?</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/07/14/cape-verde-no-money-for-lifeguards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;How to explain that there is no money to pay for lifeguards in our beaches, where more and more people have died? How come? Where do all fees and taxes paid in this land go then?&#8221;, asks Maktub, from Praia, Cape Verde.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;How to explain that there is no money to pay for lifeguards in our beaches, where more and more people have died? How come? Where do all fees and taxes paid in this land go then?&#8221;, asks<a href="http://vdmaktub.blogspot.com/"> Maktub</a>, from Praia, Cape Verde.</p>
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		<title>Cape Verde: Teenage, pregnant and banned from school</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The close-knit Cape Verdean blogosphere has launched a campaign against a school decision to ban a student girl on the grounds of "childbirth". An online petition demanding a special framework for pregnant girls at school, which has been organized by the bloggers, is rapidly growing in support.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>On May 28 2008, a young Cape Verdean female student, attending the 11th grade at the Januario Leite Secondary School, District of Paul (Santo Antao Island), was asked to cancel her enrolment after delivering a baby. Distraught by the bitter taste of women discrimination in Cape Verdean schools, Ana Rodrigues wrote a letter to the Minister of Education, requesting her right to remain at school and avoid an unwanted interruption in this nearly finishing school year. In face of this event, and being aware of the existence of similar cases, we demand a special framework for pregnant girls at school, emphasising that our intention is not to encourage girl pregnancy, but rather combat school drop-outs and discrimination implied in the above mentioned suspension measure. Subscribe this petition in favour of Ana Rodrigues and leave your opinion on this suspension measure. 			Do you agree that pregnant women should be suspend from school?</p></blockquote>
<p>The above excerpt is from a <a href="http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/dicriminacaonaescola/index.html">petition against the school&#39;s decision</a>, whose link has been circulating around the Cape Verdean blogosphere. So far, the online petition organized by the Citizenship Movement and Cape Verdean Blogs has already been  signed by over 220 netizens and support is growing fast. Many of the island&#39;s bloggers have been mobilized and they are posting about the issue, some of them generating a good debate about human rights, sex education and society&#39;s hypocrisy. Below is a roundup of the strong reactions, starting with <a href="http://mulhercaboverdiana.blogspot.com/2008/06/por-motivo-de-parto.html">Eurídice Monteiro</a> [pt], the first blogger to call for action:</p>
<blockquote><p>Fiquei furiosa ao saber da situação da jovem Ana, que, apesar de estar a enfrentar dificuldades económicas acrescidas, é uma das melhores alunas da sua escola, com uma média acima dos 17 valores. Ainda a poucos dias, na Feira do Livro de Lisboa, durante a apresentação da <em>Revista Direito e Cidadania</em>, uma distinta senhora de nome Ernestina Santos contestava a discriminação das jovens e adolescentes grávidas nas escolas cabo-verdianas, como que adivinhando o caso da Ana. Como tenho uma preocupação particular com a feminização do abandono escolar, principalmente no ensino básico e secundário, e com a elevada taxa de gravidez precoce, que condena as jovens e as adolescentes a abandonarem os estabelecimentos de ensino, muitas vezes definitivamente, não podia ficar calada perante este caso.</p></blockquote>
<p class="translation">I was furious to learn of Ana&#39;s situation, the girl who, despite facing increased economic difficulties, is one of the best students of her school with an above average mark for 17 subjects. A few days ago at the Book Fair in Lisbon, during the launch of the Law and Citizenship Magazine, a distinguished lady called Mrs Ernestina Santos contested the discrimination against pregnant youngsters and teenagers in Cape Verdean schools, as if guessing Ana&#39;s case. As I have a particular concern with the feminization of the school dropout issue, especially in primary and secondary education, and with the high rate of teen pregnancy, which condemns youngsters and teenagers to leave their schools often for good, I could not keep quiet when faced with this case.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-45444" title="2555455070_fb2d2f9a0d" src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/2555455070_fb2d2f9a0d.jpg" alt="Photo by NineInchNachosIII" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/tacoma-cartoonist-society/2555455070/">NineInchNachosIII</a> used under a CC licence.</p>
<p>Many other bloggers heard about the case through the above post, and they were quick to react. <a href="http://cafemargoso.blogspot.com/2008/06/apelo-margoso_10.html">João Branco</a> [pt], who has seen his two daughters through motherhood, says that this all happened in a incredibly surreal fashion:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Andamos a brincar?</strong> Uma grávida é uma doente infecto-contagiosa neste país? Onde pára o <strong>direito constitucional à educação?</strong> Ainda para mais parece que a aluna em causa - Ana Rodrigues - escreveu uma carta para à Sra. Ministra da Educação, <strong>suplicando</strong> pelo direito de continuar os seus estudos, sem uma interrupção indesejada neste ano lectivo preste a findar. Suplicando? <strong>Suplicando por um direito?</strong> E se fosse ao contrário? O Estado a <strong>suplicar</strong> aos cidadãos que paguem os seus impostos, por exemplo. Este caso é um escândalo, <strong>fere o direito à educação</strong>, pedra basilar do desenvolvimento de Cabo Verde desde sempre. Ainda mais preocupante quando este é um caso tornado público, dando-nos a sensação que muitos mais haverá, similares a este, um pouco por todos os estabelecimentos de ensino.</p></blockquote>
<p class="translation">Is this a joke? Is a pregnant woman in this country an infectious and contagious person? Where is the constitutional right to education? It is even worse because the student concerned - Ana Rodrigues - wrote a letter to Ms Minister of Education, begging for the right to continue her studies without an unwanted interruption in this nearly complete school year. Begging? Begging for a right? And what if it was the other way around? The State begging the citizens to pay their taxes, for example. This is a scandal, this violates the right to education, the cornerstone of the Cape Verdean development. It is even more worrying when this is just one case made public, giving us the feeling that there may be many more cases, similar to this, happening in all educational establishments.</p>
<p>However, a commentator on the above post disagrees. <a href="http://cafemargoso.blogspot.com/2008/06/apelo-margoso_10.html#comment-1267544431280614663">Kuskas</a> [pt] says that her sister was expelled from school when she got pregnant and missed the term, but she was better prepared to go back to her studies a year later, with the help of her family. She stresses that parents are responsible for ensuring that children do not get pregnant in the first place:</p>
<blockquote><p>João, gravidez não é doença e nem deve ser, mas a adolescente gravida que frenquenta as aulas é prejudicada em relação aos colegas de muitas formas: as faltas são injustificadas (pelo que sei PARTO não é justificação para faltas, pelo menos nas escolas secundárias), nas aulas de educação fisica ela é tratada como as outras alunas e ela não tem direito a licença maternidade. SE as nossas escolas e as FAMILIAS estivessem PREPARADAS para lidar com essas situações, que eu continuo a dizer NÃO È e NÂO DEVE ser NORMAL, não haveria problemas nenhuns.</p></blockquote>
<p class="translation">João, pregnancy is not a disease and it should not be, but the pregnant teenager who goes to school is in jeopardy in relation to her colleagues in many ways: the missed days are unjustified (and we know childbirth is no justification for missing [lessons], at least not in secondary schools), she is treated like other students in the physical education classes and she is not entitled to maternity leave. IF our schools and families were PREPARED to deal with these situations, I still say they ARE NOT and this MUST NOT be NORMAL, there would be no problems.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-45448" title="2493299690_dec9e60bf9" src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/2493299690_dec9e60bf9.jpg" alt="By Carina" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Abstract painting by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/toadiepoo/2493299690/">Carina</a> used under a CC licence.</p>
<p>Not exactly linked to the comment above, <a href="http://soncent.blogspot.com/2008/06/ainda-sobre-o-post-da-eury.html">Eileen Barbosa</a> [pt] criticizes this very mentality towards young mothers, and people who think they are less capable of completing their studies:</p>
<blockquote><p>Já ouvi vozes dizerem qualquer coisa como &#8220;Unh, não me parece que fique bem ter grávidas a conviver com outros alunos&#8230;&#8221; Porquê, pergunto? Dá um mau exemplo? Serei inocente quando penso que pode até funcionar do outro jeito: a grávida sente-se mal disposta, a grávida não pode participar nos jogos violentos; quando o bebé nascer, virá com umas olheiras enormes por estar a perder sono&#8230; e as despesas&#8230; é melhor adiar&#8230;</p>
<p>Uma futura mãe precisa, mais do que ninguém, de meios para ganhar a vida e sustentar a cria. Negar-lhe as ferramentas para isso parece-me uma maldade injustificável.</p></blockquote>
<p class="translation">I have heard voices saying something like &#8220;Unh, I do not think it looks good that pregnant girls mingle with other students&#8230;&#8221; Why, I wonder? Can you give me a bad example? Am I being naive when I think it could actually be the other way around: [people saying] the pregnant girl feels unwell, the pregnant girl can not participate in violent games; when the baby is born, she will come with bags under her eyes for not getting enough sleep&#8230; and the expenses&#8230; it is better to put it off&#8230;<br />
A future mother needs, more than anyone else, the means to earn a living and support her offspring. Denying her the tools to do so seems to me an unjustifiable wicked thing.</p>
<p><strong>On the grounds of childbirth</strong></p>
<p>More than just granting that Ana Rodrigues is given the opportunity to resume her studies, bloggers want an investigation into the school headmistress&#39; decision to force the girl to give up school, on the grounds of &#8220;childbirth&#8221;. The notice, signed by headmistress Alda Maria Martins Lima, reads as follows: &#8220;The Directorate of Januario Leite Secondary School hereby gives notice to teachers and students of the 11C class of the Economic and Social Course that the student Ana Maria Rodrigues is suspended from classes on the grounds of childbirth. She must apply herself for the cancellation of her matriculation for this school year&#8221;.</p>
<p><a href="http://terra-longe.blogspot.com/2008/06/deixando-constituio-da-repblica-de-cabo.html">Virgílio Brandão</a> [pt] publishes excerpts of the Constitution which shows that not only every citizen has the right to education, but also that &#8220;The agents of the state and other public entities are, by law, criminally and disciplinarily responsible for actions or omissions that lead to violation of rights, freedoms and guarantees.&#8221; On another long and well thought of post, he <a href="http://terra-longe.blogspot.com/2008/06/discriminao-de-parto-por-ponderosas.html">reminds readers that this is not the first time</a> [pt] that a young girl has been driven to drop out of school after getting pregnant. In fact, if not normal, this seems to happen quite often in Cape Verde and that it is a fact society and government need to better acknowledge and address:</p>
<blockquote><p>O extraordinário é que as Instituições que deveriam proteger a infância, a juventude e os direitos humanos em geral não fazem (não fizeram, que eu tenha conhecimento) nada de prático para evitar este e outros males. Quantas Anas existem e já existiram em Cabo Verde? O que aconteceu com elas, depois de decisões como esta? A estatística não deve servir somente a política e a economia, não&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p class="translation">The amazing point is that the institutions that should protect the children, youth and [advocate] human rights in general don&#39;t do (they haven&#39;t done, as far as I know) anything practical to prevent this and other evils. How many Anas are there and have already been in Cape Verde? What has happened to them, after decisions like this? Statistics should serve not only politics and economy&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-45451" title="2433266288_115a052174" src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/2433266288_115a052174.jpg" alt="Photo by O Pirata" /><br />
Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/iurifernandes/2433266288/">O Pirata</a> used under a CC licence.</p>
<p><a href="http://furnas.arteblog.com.br/69447/O-Maldito-Espelho-e-as-Hormonas-Fedorentas/">Furnas</a> [pt] carries on the same idea to say that it is high time society debated these issues in an open manner:</p>
<blockquote><p>Se os caboverdianos querem discutir a questão da gravidez na adolescência que o façam de forma séria, madura, ponderada e científica, não na perspectiva moralista e, muito menos de valores pessoais discutíveis e de origem e finalidade duvidosas! Acho que por uma questão de cidadania, que nos toca a todos, deveríamos estudar a possibilidade de entrar com um processo-crime no tribunal contra o estado de Cabo Verde! Está mais do que na hora de começarmos a quebrar o silêncio&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p class="translation">If Cape Verdeans want to discuss the issue of teenage pregnancy they should do so in a serious, mature, thoughtful and scientific way, not with the moralist view only, and even less with debatable personal values of dubious origin/means! I think that as it is a matter of citizenship, which concerns us all, we should consider the possibility of joining with the criminal proceedings in a court against the state of Cape Verde! It is high time we began to break the silence&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://blogdopaulino.blogspot.com/2008/06/outras-frentes.html">Paulino Dias</a> [pt] believes that talking about it is not as easy when people just close their eyes to the problem.</p>
<blockquote><p>O problema é mais profundo, minha amiga. Tem a ver com a (re)avaliação da legalidade e da &#8220;humanidade&#8221; da medida de afastamento das alunas grávidas das escolas, tem a ver com a desconstrução das famílias e dos seus valores que vimos assistindo diariamente, tem a ver com um certo &#8220;lavar de mãos&#8221; dos pais no que diz respeito à educação sexual dos filhos (sim senhor, isso não é assunto apenas do Ministério da Educação ou das Delegacias de Saúde!), tem a ver com a passividade de todos nós que tranquilamente vamos assistindo a esses &#8220;pequenos&#8221; dramas e assobiamos para o lado com a consciência limpa de quem pagou já os seus impostos.</p></blockquote>
<p class="translation">The problem is deeper, my friend. It has to do with the (re) assessment of legality and &#8220;humanity&#8221; of the schools&#39; removal order for pregnant students, it is about the deconstruction of families and their values that we have watched daily, it is about a certain &#8220;washing of hands&#8221; of parents regarding sex education of children (yes sir, this matter does not only concern the Ministry of Education or the Health Authorities!), it has to do with the passivity of all of us who quietly watch these &#8220;small&#8221; dramas and turn our backs with the clear conscience of those who have already paid their taxes.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-45446" title="2546098428_a00f9068d0" src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/2546098428_a00f9068d0.jpg" alt="Photo by elisnice" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/elisnice/2546098428/">elisnice</a> used under a CC licence.</p>
<p>Coming back to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://terra-longe.blogspot.com/">Virgílio Brandão</a> [pt], this time on a comment on a <a href="http://cafemargoso.blogspot.com/2008/06/apelo-margoso_10.html#comment-2942179071422343649">Cafe Margoso</a> post, he shares this anecdote about one of his past colleagues at Law School who had three kids during the university course:</p>
<blockquote><p>Um dia, perguntei-lhe porque é que ela estava quase sempre grávida na altura dos exames e ela respondeu-me, com um extraordinário sentido de humor:</p>
<p>- Virgílio, fico mais inteligente quando estou grávida.</p></blockquote>
<p class="translation">One day, I asked her why she was almost always pregnant when the examinations were up, to which she answered me, with an extraordinary sense of humour:<br />
- Virgílio, I get more clever when I am pregnant.</p>
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		<title>Cape Verde: Close to making history</title>
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