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WELLESLEY, MA -- Pedro Pires, former President of Cape Verde (2001-2011) and 2011 winner of the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Excellence in African Leadership, will travel to Wellesley College to deliver the keynote address Freedom, Equality, and Democracy at the Madeleine Albright Institute for Global Affairs on Friday, January 11.
The event is free and open to the public. It will begin at 3pm in the Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall, followed by a reception that is also open to the public.
President Pires will be the first Head of State to be hosted by the Albright Institute and will have an opportunity to provide his first-hand account of Cape Verde's trajectory from being an oppressed, colonial entity to a shining star of democracy in Africa.
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Isn't he also accused of having committed fraud twice in the Presidential elections of Cape Verde?
One last question:
How does a president of a country where the prime minister is actually more important (pairlamentary system) the de-facto leader, win the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Excellence in African Leadership? Shouldn't've the prize have gone to the PM, instead?
Mo Ibrahim should've done his home-work before he dished out his hard or possibly ill-earned oil money
Looks like you did not do your homework before posting. Shoot first, ask questions later.
But then again some people swear that PP was never actually in Guinea Bissau. He was a convenience store owner in Dakar, they claim.
So how did he manage to be appointed Prime Minister after the war?
And what about the vehicular homicide involving his father in Praia?
Answer these questions, xatiado.
As far as the, homicide, I know very little about the case, but forward your questions to his lawyer, Carlos Veiga, he might have a better answer for you. He was the one who was able to defend him successfully. Remember, he is a great lawyer, and he was Pedro Pires's left hand. That is ironic, isn't it?
Xam para pamoh nsta bah prapara pam ba obi kel grandi omi papia....El eh nos orgulho!!!!!
Sure is ironic. CV defended PP's father in a homicide case. PP's father is acquitted. The people are angry but don't make an outcry. A few months later CV is appointed Prucurador Geral (attorney general) by the acquitted's son, PP, the prime minister.
Years later CV figures he should take over. "I'm going to start my own political party", he reasons to himself. He gathers around some "doutores" for a top secret meeting.
Enter the birth of MPD
The timing that you used to substantiate you argument is way off. Veiga never formed a party. For one MPD, is a movement, not a party. But even if it were a party, CV, is not a founder, he was invited to participate.
His participation and other things that you mentioned have nothing to do with the incident in question. You were very acrobatic trying to tie the dots. I know the chronology of the events. They are unrelated. Please use a different argument or do both of us a favor. Quit!
If Carlos Veiga accepted the promotion for the acquittal of PP's dad, then, he is, in my standards, in the same boat as the ones you are trying to smear. Wouldn't you say so?!
Your leaders are not guided by ethical and moral principles? I see, only the law matters!
I shall not, ever, shy away from an opportunity to defend you, com unhas e dentes. In my world, you have reached immortality.
Trust me, I'm a very good observer.Few CVs have a solid loyalty to a political ideology. CVs are survivors, they'll say viva flano-detal or sekilanu, but as soon as that given party or individual loses an election, they switch the music.
As for the MPD, it is a political party, founded by CV. He and a few others created the party. He was the one who did the inviting.
Wow, you have a very extensive vocabulary. I'm thoroughly impressed.
Most camaradas can barely read or write.
I'm a nice guy so I'll say that you live in a parallel universe, but reality places you in a perpendicular one
If you analyse it carefully you see a pattern of correlation, the more education, the less likely they are to vote for a certain party.
Partioso, what I see is democracy in action. Whenever people are fed up with those in power, they elect a new crew. That's been true since 1990 in CV and for far longer in countries practicing democracy. Let's have a talk about this 20 years from now.
But you must admit that there's a pattern, in virtually every concelho(county ), where there's a sizable number of educated people, camaradas have lost since 1990.
Partido, you first must stop making assumptions as to what party or ideology I adhere to. Don't be so simple minded. The fact that I don't agree with your statements does not put me in the "camaradas" column. Should I start believing that you're a fascist because your words are opposite of mine?
Rest to follow
How can you explain the inability of the MpD to elect a PM? That's because people have MEMORIES. Yes, the PAICV were bad, yes they did bad things, but people did not elect the MpD for them to be worse. They did not elect the MpD for them to hand the country over to the Tugas and close friends, to give sweet deals to Italians and whomever lined their pockets with gold.
They got elected to do a better job than the ousted party and they couldn't deliver, so got got booted in favor of the old lover. Ask any woman, and she'll tell you that she can forgive her lover cheating on her a thousand times as long as he provides for her. After all it is just a convenient relationship. On the contrary, she'll never, never forgive the love of her life for just ONE indiscretion. The reason? She never expected much from the lover but she did everything from the love of her life.
The MpD was CV's love, the one who delivered her from the oppressor and it failed miserably, so she had no other choice other than go back to the old lover. I believe that the day CV is rid of Veiga the MpD will regain power.
Durante 15 anos este homem ditou, mandou torturar, perseguiu e causou a morte de pessoas que resistiam ao regime.
As pressoas teem a memoria custa e por isso eh preciso lembrar-lhes que.....
....Pedro Pires foi a figura que presonalizou e REGIME DO PARTIDO UNICO, que oprimiu durante 15 anos o povo cabovetrdeano.
Essa NODOA nao Sai nem com petroleo!
Yes, he was a gorilla and across from him stood some bears. The gorillas beat the bears and the rest is History. Deal with it.
Prostitutas se tornaram em mulheres exemplares, assassinos em cidadãos de primeira, analfabetos em doutores, etc. Ignoranti gó, nunca bira inteligenti.
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