To talk about politics while the country confronts a looming food crisis would seem insensitive. Politics connotes divisiveness, and one has to be callous not to see the need to come together and act as a unified community if we are to solve the basic problem of feeding our people. But if the search for … Read more
Tomorrow, April 20, if the opinion polls are predictive, the next president of Paraguay may well be a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. Fernando Lugo, who has been called “bishop of the poor,” resigned as bishop of the diocese of San Pedro in 2005 to become a full-time politician. The Vatican suspended him from … Read more
The growing lines of the urban poor seeking their daily ration of rice are images suffused with political meaning. Any regime that knows its politics cannot fail to see great danger looming ahead. For nothing illustrates more sharply a crisis spinning out of control than angry people scrambling for food. The Arroyo government is aware … Read more
My father-in-law went through a difficult period of dialysis before he died in 1999 at the age of 80. My 78-year-old mother suffered from the same end-stage renal disease and died the following year. Both went through the same arduous course of daily peritoneal or thriceweekly hemo-dialysis, punctuated by recurrent infections requiring hospital confinement, and … Read more