Global linkages,
by Jorge Edwards.
Everything is connected. Called globalization can be a development of these connections, or increased awareness, knowledge tighter than existing ones. Globalization, in other words, there would be more than a global vision of things. I read a recent French text speaks of the interplay between past, present and future. While games are just games. The past influences the present, and this in the future but the future, in turn, is projected back. The future influences the present. When last we will see the current time according to the lines that have followed. For example, if Iran today walking in a democratic direction, we will interpret the case of the woman sentenced to stoning in a way. Think about that too, barbarism, primitivism led to reflect, to a human reaction. Or tell us which was the threshold of an even darker time.
In Chile we know the subject but I do not know how it has impacted. In France it is easier to address these problems such as constellations, such as large aftershocks at the level of moral consciousness. Bernard-Henri Lévy, who earlier in my years spent in France and Spain, was a young philosopher, and now no longer so young, has taken the lead through an own internet site called The rule game. I find it interesting, for starters, that today's intellectuals occupy sites in the network and use it to develop ideas, to express and discuss them. In the past, Levy was a dissident of the official left, a Marxist, and there were constant accusations of pandering to the right. We could say that these days, with the fall of the Berlin Wall with many other phenomena, passed, and it's much better that way. Bernard-Henri Lévy, for instance, tells us that he telephoned the President Sarkozy about the Iranian woman convicted and that the President had a very good reaction "was a good reflection, the words fair and accurate and the tone , an emotion that no cheating. " The quote is interesting as a portrait of a dissident now: there is agreement on some issues, and shows that under stress, with enthusiasm, and can disagree on others. Gone are the reactions in bulk, at the point of overt old-hat, the Cold War years. The signatures of those years, public accessions, podían recitarse de memoria. El caso de la iraní, en cambio, ha provocado la redacción de un manifiesto de estilo nuevo, lleno de firmas imprevisibles. Me siento inclinado a firmar, pero tengo que acordarme de que he regresado a la diplomacia en activo, no sé por cuánto tiempo. Me abstengo, por consiguiente, y me quedo pensativo acerca del papel de una diplomacia moderna, en un mundo donde los límites profesionales, nacionales, de todo orden, cuentan menos que en el pasado.
En consideración al paciente lector, cuento algunos detalles. La joven iraní Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, casada with two children, was accused in his country of having sex with two men out of wedlock. Was sentenced in a first stage, a penalty of 99 lashes and the punishment was carried out in presence of one of their children. Since those days, not out of jail. Was recently sentenced by a court to death by stoning sentence provoked international reaction passionate, intense, perfectly predictable. To the best of the media campaign, appeared on television in his country veiled in the shadows, and confessed that she was present when one of her two lovers murdered her husband. His Iranian lawyer, specializing in human rights causes, she was bullied, harassed in each of his steps and his family, preferring to escape over the border from Turkey on foot and horseback, and settle in Norway. Bernard-Henri Lévy managed to speak with him by telephone, in English, and the lawyer informed him that the confession of Sakineh, in his view, had been extracted by force and had no basis whatsoever. The lawyer believes that the death sentence by stoning can be done at any time and that international pressure is the only thing that could save her.
I come up here and I see a headline in another side: the foreign policy of President Lula, announced in short, has an impact on the campaign. And Lula da Silva, with his usual flexibility, meanwhile, says: if this woman causes trouble in Iran, we can host it in Brazil, a statement that the Tehran regime attributed to "excessive sensitivity" of the Brazilian President.
watched with interest, curiosity, often with admiration, the Brazilian diplomacy of some thirty years ago. While I do not know now, but I guess not much has changed. They are professional, imaginative, high assertiveness. I remember ambassadors poets, a novelist boundary issues addressed, as it was Guimaraes Rosa, brilliant economist, educated in England, and intervening on behalf of Brazil in the Geneva discussions. In the delegation at the first UNCTAD Conference in 1964 included at least four ambassadors. One of them used to dance at night in one of the clubs in town Calvinist, in the shadow of the grim walls of the cathedral of San Pedro. Bygone times and lived, said a former diplomat essayist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Joaquim Nabuco, author, at a distance, a remarkable book about our President Balmaceda.
are tissues, interconnections, which branch in space and time. I visited the country again, two or three years, and they told me that the memories of Nabuco had become a classic of contemporary Brazilian literature. I now intend to read those reports nineteenth century and contemplate with a curious look XXI century diplomacy. In the absence of another subject.
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