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06SAOPAULO430
2006-04-25 15:45:00
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Consulate Sao Paulo
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MEDIA REACTION: MIDDLE EAST: ATTACKS IN EGYPT; WESTERN

Tags:  KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR 
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E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: MIDDLE EAST: ATTACKS IN EGYPT; WESTERN
HEMISPHERE: US IMMIGRATION POLICY; SAO PAULO


UNCLAS SAO PAULO 000430

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

STATE INR/R/MR; IIP/R/MR; WHA/PD

DEPT PASS USTR

USDOC 4322/MAC/OLAC/JAFEE

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: MIDDLE EAST: ATTACKS IN EGYPT; WESTERN
HEMISPHERE: US IMMIGRATION POLICY; SAO PAULO



1. "Internal Factors"

International writer Igor Gielow commented in liberal Folha de S.
Paulo (4/25): "It is tempting to seek an easy explanation for the
attacks in Egypt. If on the one hand there is a strong
international component, with a probable link with Al Qaeda and the
presence of western and Israeli tourists, it is also necessary to
pay attention to internal factors. It is necessary to combine these
pieces with a squeezed middle class that has no political
representation and with poverty in Cairo, the Nile valley and other
isolate points in the nation.... With the rise of the network led by
Osama bin Laden, it has become easy to blame 'international terror'
for actions such as those of yesterday. Obviously, there is an
inspiration and maybe some foreign resources. But poverty and the
political repression resulting from the failure of the Nasser model,
personalized in Hosni Mubarak's 25 years of autocratic power, are
significant factors. Poverty does not mean violence, but fanatics
using ideology for their own agenda are facilitated when the state
is not present."


2. "Latinization Of The US"

Former Brazilian ambassador in Washington Rubens Barbosa observed in
center-right O Estado de S. Paulo (4/25): "The issue involving
illegal immigrants has gained a political dimension of unpredictable
consequences in the US.... Latin Americans in the US currently total
more than 25 million and have become in 2005 the largest minority in
the nation.... Latinos are modifying the way the US feels, thinks,
eats, dances and votes.... From a political standpoint, public
demonstrations have shown something new in terms of organizational
capability and influence in the US political scene. The political
power of the Latino vote is present today in large, medium and small
American cities.... As a group, the Latinos still do not have their
own political identity and define themselves more by immediate
concrete interests (immigration policy and living conditions, for
example). As one could predict, some conservative and traditional
sectors of the US society are reacting strongly.... What is going on
is a process of Latinization of the US, especially in the South, and
a populational reoccupation of lost territories resembling a
peaceful reclaiming [of land]."
McMullen