Catherine and the Baroness
The only character who actually dies in Disney’s
Cruella is the sweet, good servant, Catherine, who consents to raise Cruella – condemned to death by her birth mother, the grotesquely unfeeling Baroness De Vil – as her own daughter. Cruella and the Baroness shall dance a burlesque that plays out to the morbid rhythm of an eternal melody. Similarly in Peru since even the time of Spanish dominion a macabre masquerade has been enacted between conservatives and liberals, parties born of the same mother, Empire, whose local nemesis,
Pachamama, struggles vainly with these uninvited adoptees in the face of their mutual despoliation of the natural order.
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The left s candidate, Pedro Castillo, is claiming victory at this point, but his winning margin is extremely thin, about 44,000 ballots out of 16 MM cast. Meanwhile, Keiko Fujimori, daughter of disgraced president and autocrat Alberto Fujimori, is charging voting fraud and asking for a recount. Keiko represents Peru s bourgeois sectors, from the upper class to many in the anti-communist middle class. It is a foregone conclusion that, as the left stages victories in Bolivia and now possibly Peru, and with broad anti-establishment protests in Chile, Ecuador and recently even Colombia, easily one of the most brutally repressive countries in the world, Washington is moving its secret assets to roll back and smash this social change tide. Indeed, from a purely democratic standpoint, Keiko Fujimori s political dynasty credentials are a joke:
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February 17, 2021 at 4:02pm
Peruvian artist Teresa Burga, known for her involvement in the ’60s neo-avant-garde Grupo Arte Nuevo, died of Covid-19 on February 11 in Peru at eighty-five. Burga’s work in painting, sculpture, cybernetics, and installation applied conceptual strategies to questions of gender and labor, exploring the implications of systematization on modern life.
Born in Iquitos, Peru, in 1935, Burga studied painting at the Pontifical Catholic University in Lima, graduating in 1965. The following year, she, Jaime Dávila, Gloria Gómez-Sánchez, Luis Arias Vera, and a few others founded Grupo Arte Nuevo, a collective that brought new artistic movements such as Op, Pop, Minimalism, and happenings to the Peruvian scene. During this period, Burga produced sculptural works she called “