89 Harare 0599: MATABELELAND: STILL WAITING FOR THE FUTURE

 

88 HARARE 3798: SECURITY ON THE EASTERN BORDER

 

 

00 Brasilia 0331: Inching Along GOB Reforms Advance Slowly *

* Note:  This was the last substantive cable sent under my name and the last of the Brazil series of cable to be posted here.  (I departed Brasilia on February 1, 2000.) f anything redacted in this series strikes interest, you can always do a FOIA request of your own. 

00 Brasilia 0219: Defense Minister Alvares Falls; Replacement Named

99 Brasilia 04582: Brazilian Congressional Agenda--End of Year Update

99 Brasilia 04559: Narco-Committee Stirs the Pot, Prompts Mini-Crisis in Defense Ministry

From My Journal

December 5:  I’ll be leaving Brazil in February. As a result of some clear thinking about how to use an opening the ambassador-to-be gave me to push him early on how open he’d be to my sort of professionalism. He then made his own clear decision to have me leave a week after he gets here in late January. I have some loose ends to tie up the Department, like what my next job will be....

December 12:  Watched a little of a modern remake of The Tempest this afternoon.  Struck me that I was also a sort of magi who used powerful words to call down a storm and shipwreck the man who did him a dishonor.  Of course the results of magic, even when it works, is not entirely predictable.  Dealing with the quick saida has caused me some discomfort.  But it is simply impossible to walk down two paths at once.  In my case, I am tired of being a foreigner, tired of thinking about others people’s problems and telling them what to do about them.  (And no mistake, we are not all the same, all one family.  We are different nations and I doubt there are many who live abroad that would deny this.) 

Note:  The new ambassador was a political appointee.

99 Brasilia 04465: Brazilian Congress Forgives Electoral Fines

99 Brasilia 04380: Security Chief Resigns After Demonstrator Dies At Brasilia Public Works Agency

99 Brasilia 04374: Demonstrator Dies At Brasilia Public Works Agency