domingo, 10 de abril de 2011

No venues available for 'The Great Fraud' book launch

The launch of 'Jardim, the Great Fraud' due to take place next Tuesday has been postponed. Originally booked to take place at FNAC, it was suddenly cancelled due to 'agenda problems'. The Hotel CS then agreed to hire out a conference room only to cancel it the following day. A further six or seven venues were contacted, all with the same outcome. No one dares to take on the book launch in a land where all know that whoever dares to do so will be targeted with retaliation and persecution.

Cardoso Ribeiro's book is in fact a case study of such persecutions, with particularly illuminating chapters on persecutions within the church and the civil service. It candidly explores Jardim's relation to the justice system, to state entities and the media. Its an extremely good read and a damning testimony on our 33-year long regime. 

It is no wonder that people know this book will touch a raw nerve. It provides the most senstitive analysis yet on Jardim's intimate relation to the Dictatorship and the Church on the one hand, and his shady links to the FLAMA terrorists on the other. It has a wonderful interview with the General Azeredo, who was posted to Madeira as military governor following the revolution, which explains how and why the  authorities turned a blind eye to terrorism. It has a wealth of documents from well-known politicians and analysts condemning the situation on Madeira, although the most influential of these are the very same people who also publicly extol him as a 'great democrat'.

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