Brasileiros residentes em Maputo vão receber treinamento para as eleições no seu país

Os brasileiros convocados para trabalhar nas eleições presidenciais do próximo dia 3 de outubro passarão por um treinamento na próxima semana. Mesários, presidentes de secção e secretários vão conhecer o sistema electrônico de votação e aprender a trabalhar com a urna.

“Já recebemos o material impresso, pediram-nos para estudar as instruções na página do Tribunal Eleitoral na internet, e agora vamos passar por um treinamento prático no dia 23”, diz Margareth Aragão, que vai trabalhar na capital moçambicana, Maputo.

“Fomos abordados pela embaixada antes da convocação, e todos aceitaram de bom grado”, diz Margareth, que será primeira-secretária. Ela já trabalhou em eleições como apuradora de votos, ainda quando morava no Brasil, há mais de 20 anos. “Mesmo estando longe é muito importante participar. Do contrário, seria uma omissão.”

A missão diplomática brasileira em Moçambique estima que cerca de 300 dos 463 inscritos em Maputo votem. Muitos não conseguem ir aos locais de votação, por causa da distância. Boa parte da comunidade brasileira vive no Norte do país, como missionários religiosos ou funcionários da mineradora Vale, instalada em Tete, província a mais de 1,5 mil quilômetros da capital.

Maputo tem o segundo maior contingente de eleitores inscritos para votar na África, ficando atrás apenas de Pretória (Africa do Sul), com 476. A capital moçambicana é uma das 126 cidades fora do Brasil onde serão instaladas secções de votação no próximo dia 3 de outubro, em um total de 94.

Millennium bim apoia Universidade Pedagógica

Se de uma iniciativa que deverá apoiar a formação de estudantes universitários, na medida em que estabelece a criação de linhas de crédito especiais

O Millennium bim, o maior banco comercial do país, vai abrir uma linha de crédito para os estudantes da Universidade Pedagógica de Moçambique – UP -, que varia de 35 a 300 mil meticais para cada pretendente, no sentido de dar a oportunidade de frequentar o ensino superior a quem não a tem.

O protocolo que estabelece este compromisso foi ontem assinado, em Maputo, pelo administrador Comercial do Millennium bim, António Ferreira, e o reitor da UP, Rogério Uthui.

Trata-se de uma iniciativa que deverá apoiar a formação de estudantes universitários, na medida em que estabelece a criação de linhas de crédito especiais, as quais os formandos terão a possibilidade de amortizar depois de concluírem os cursos.

O pacote de crédito disponibilizado pelo Millennium bim será destinado a financiar estudantes que pretendam frequentar cursos de Licenciatura, Pós-graduação, Mestrado e Doutoramento leccionados por aquela instituição de ensino superior.

“No fundo, queremos dar a possibilidade a quem quer estudar. Não queremos que deixe de fazê-lo por falta de condições financeiras”, resumiu o responsável do Millennium bim.

Disse ainda que a condição principal para o acesso ao crédito consiste nos pretendentes estarem vinculados à UP, quer como alunos, quer como funcionários, uma vez que o acordo se estende a este segundo grupo de pessoas.

Por sua vez, o reitor da UP salientou que o protocolo vai facilitar o pagamento de propinas e outras despesas imputadas aos estudantes, através daquela instituição financeira.

A UP tem perto de 40 mil estudantes em todo o país e é uma das maiores instituições de ensino superior em Moçambique.

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Descentralização do Orçamento do Estado continua insatisfatória

Há disparidades na alocação de dinheiro para os sectores prioritários em Moçambique, apontam a Fundação para o Desenvolvimento da Comunidade (FDC) e o Fundo das Nações Unidas para a Infância (UNICEF)

Este ano, o Estado tem 117.977,20 milhões de meticais, contra 87.452,90 milhões de meticais em 2009. Os recursos internos para 2010 são 65.960,60 milhões de meticais, contra 47.691,50 em 2009. Os recursos externos estão avaliados em 52.016,60 milhões de meticais, contra 39.761,40 de 2009.

A descentralização e a desconcentração da execução do Orçamento do Estado está a decorrer de forma morosa, não obstante haver algumas melhorias comparativamente aos anos anteriores. Para variar, há disparidades na alocação de dinheiro para os sectores prioritários em Moçambique, apontam a Fundação para o Desenvolvimento da Comunidade (FDC) e o Fundo das Nações Unidas para a Infância (UNICEF).
As duas instituições apresentaram ontem, em Maputo, um informe sobre Orçamento do Estado de 2010, alocado em prol da criança e da mulher no país, com especial enfoque para os sectores sociais chaves que respondem por estes grupos vulneráveis.
Em termos de distribuição, aquelas entidades, que se apoiam no na Lei Orçamental e no Relatório de Execução Orçamental 2010, atestam que o Governo central tem um orçamento de 85.117,95 milhões de meticais, contra 26.134,84 e 5.659,95 milhões de meticais dos governos provinciais e distritais. As autarquias têm apenas 1.064,49 milhões de meticais.
Por um lado, o informe constatou que comparativamente aos anos anteriores a política de descentralização do Orçamento do Estado tem sido implementada, mas muito dinheiro continua concentrado ao nível central, num cenário em que as acções com vista a eliminação das necessitadas dos grupos vulneráveis acontecem nas províncias, mormente nos distritos.
Por outro, apesar de reconhecerem alguns avanços na forma como é segmentado o orçamento, indicam que as disparidades na alocação de fundos, por habitante, por província, se mantêm. E sugere que se reconsidere os critérios de alocação de dinheiro no processo da descentralização.
Outro aspecto apontado tem a ver com o incremento orçamental aos sectores sociais prioritários para erradicação da miséria que apoquenta milhares de crianças e mulheres no país. Contudo, a sua distribuição por província não tem sido equitativa. As províncias da Zambézia e Nampula, por exemplo, continuam sendo as mais carecidas, pese embora, à semelhança de outras com mais verbas, terem maior número de população.
No sector da educação, a FDC e a UNICEF exemplificam que a locação per capita varia de 878 meticais, na província de Maputo, para 249 meticais na Zambézia. (Emildo Sambo)
CANALMOZ – 10.09.2010

10/09/2010 in Economia - Transportes - Obras Públicas - Comunicações | P

Fidel: 'Cuban Model Doesn't Even Work For Us Anymore'

SEP 8 2010, 12:00 PM ET

There were many odd things about my recent Havana stopover (apart from the dolphin show, which I'll get to shortly), but one of the most unusual was Fidel Castro's level of self-reflection. I only have limited experience with Communist autocrats (I have more experience with non-Communist autocrats) but it seemed truly striking that Castro was willing to admit that he misplayed his hand at a crucial moment in the Cuban Missile Crisis (you can read about what he said toward the end of my previous post - but he said, in so many words, that he regrets asking Khruschev to nuke the U.S.).

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Even more striking was something he said at lunch on the day of our first meeting. We were seated around a smallish table; Castro, his wife, Dalia, his son; Antonio; Randy Alonso, a major figure in the government-run media; and Julia Sweig, the friend I brought with me to make sure, among other things, that I didn't say anything too stupid (Julia is a leading Latin American scholar at the Council on Foreign Relations). I initially was mainly interested in watching Fidel eat - it was a combination of digestive problems that conspired to nearly kill him, and so I thought I would do a bit of gastrointestinal Kremlinology and keep a careful eye on what he took in (for the record, he ingested small amounts of fish and salad, and quite a bit of bread dipped in olive oil, as well as a glass of red wine). But during the generally lighthearted conversation (we had just spent three hours talking about Iran and the Middle East), I asked him if he believed the Cuban model was still something worth exporting.

"The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore," he said.

This struck me as the mother of all Emily Litella moments. Did the leader of the Revolution just say, in essence, "Never mind"?

I asked Julia to interpret this stunning statement for me. She said, "He wasn't rejecting the ideas of the Revolution. I took it to be an acknowledgment that under 'the Cuban model' the state has much too big a role in the economic life of the country."

Julia pointed out that one effect of such a sentiment might be to create space for his brother, Raul, who is now president, to enact the necessary reforms in the face of what will surely be push-back from orthodox communists within the Party and the bureaucracy. Raul Castro is already loosening the state's hold on the economy. He recently announced, in fact, that small businesses can now operate and that foreign investors could now buy Cuban real estate. (The joke of this new announcement, of course, is that Americans are not allowed to invest in Cuba, not because of Cuban policy, but because of American policy. In other words, Cuba is beginning to adopt the sort of economic ideas that America has long-demanded it adopt, but Americans are not allowed to participate in this free-market experiment because of our government's hypocritical and stupidly self-defeating embargo policy. We'll regret this, of course, when Cubans partner with Europeans and Brazilians to buy up all the best hotels).

But I digress. Toward the end of this long, relaxed lunch, Fidel proved to us that he was truly semi-retired. The next day was Monday, when maximum leaders are expected to be busy single-handedly managing their economies, throwing dissidents into prison, and the like. But Fidel's calendar was open. He asked us, "Would you like to go the aquarium with me to see the dolphin show?"

I wasn't sure I heard him correctly. (This happened a number of times during my visit). "The dolphin show?"

"The dolphins are very intelligent animals," Castro said.

I noted that we had a meeting scheduled for the next morning, with Adela Dworin, the president of Cuba's Jewish community.

"Bring her," Fidel said.

Someone at the table mentioned that the aquarium was closed on Mondays. Fidel said, "It will be open tomorrow."

And so it was.

Late the next morning, after collecting Adela at the synagogue, we met Fidel on the steps of the dolphin house. He kissed Dworin, not incidentally in front of the cameras (another message for Ahmadinejad, perhaps). We went together into a large, blue-lit room that faces a massive, glass-enclosed dolphin tank. Fidel explained, at length, that the Havana Aquarium's dolphin show was the best dolphin show in the world, "completely unique," in fact, because it is an underwater show. Three human divers enter the water, without breathing equipment, and perform intricate acrobatics with the dolphins. "Do you like dolphins?" Fidel asked me.

"I like dolphins a lot," I said.

Fidel called over Guillermo Garcia, the director of the aquarium (every employee of the aquarium, of course, showed up for work -- "voluntarily," I was told) and told him to sit with us.

"Goldberg," Fidel said, "ask him questions about dolphins."

"What kind of questions?" I asked.

"You're a journalist, ask good questions," he said, and then interrupted himself. "He doesn't know much about dolphins anyway," he said, pointing to Garcia. He's actually a nuclear physicist."

"You are?" I asked.

"Yes," Garcia said, somewhat apologetically.

"Why are you running the aquarium?" I asked.

"We put him here to keep him from building nuclear bombs!" Fidel said, and then cracked-up laughing.

"In Cuba, we would only use nuclear power for peaceful means," Garcia said, earnestly.

"I didn't think I was in Iran," I answered.

Fidel pointed to the small rug under the special swivel chair his bodyguards bring along for him.

"It's Persian!" he said, and laughed again. Then he said, "Goldberg, ask your questions about dolphins."

Now on the spot, I turned to Garcia and asked, "How much do the dolphins weigh?"

They weigh between 100 and 150 kilograms, he said.

"How do you train the dolphins to do what they do?" I asked.

"That's a good question," Fidel said.

Garcia called over one of the aquarium's veterinarians to help answer the question. Her name was Celia. A few minutes later, Antonio Castro told me her last name: Guevara.

"You're Che's daughter?" I asked.

"Yes," she said.

"And you're a dolphin veterinarian?"

"I take care of all the inhabitants of the aquarium," she said.

"Che liked animals very much," Antonio Castro said.

It was time for the show to start. The lights dimmed, and the divers entered the water. Without describing it overly much, I will say that once again, and to my surprise, I found myself agreeing with Fidel: The aquarium in Havana puts on a fantastic dolphin show, the best I've ever seen, and as the father of three children, I've seen a lot of dolphin shows. I will also say this: I've never seen someone enjoy a dolphin show as much as Fidel Castro enjoyed the dolphin show.

In the next installment, I will deal with such issues as the American embargo, the status of religion in Cuba, the plight of political dissidents, and economic reform. For now, I leave you with this image from our day at the aquarium (I'm in the low chair; Che's daughter is behind me, with the short, blondish hair; Fidel is the guy who looks like Fidel if Fidel shopped at L.L. Bean):

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Obama remembers Sept. 11, calls for unity

WASHINGTON -- Amid an atmosphere of unease, President Barack Obama wants Americans to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by recapturing the sense of common purpose felt on that dreadful day.

"If there is a lesson to be drawn on this anniversary, it is this: We are one nation -- one people -- bound not only by grief, but by a set of common ideals," the president said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address.

"By giving back to our communities, by serving people in need, we reaffirm our ideals -- in defiance of those who would do us grave harm."

Obama himself was marking the day nearly 3,000 people died in terrorist jetliner attacks with a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m., the time the first plane hit the World Trade Center in New York City. The president also planned to attend a memorial service at the Pentagon and participate in a service project in the Washington area.

First lady Michelle Obama was to join former first lady Laura Bush in Shanksville, Pa., where the fourth plane crashed after passengers rushed the cockpit. Vice President Joe Biden is in New York for the service at ground zero.

But this year's remembrances take place in an unusually tense environment, amid growing public suspicion of Muslims and controversies over an Islamic community center and mosque planned near ground zero and a Florida pastor's threat to burn Qurans on Saturday.

By late Friday, it appeared the Rev. Terry Jones had backed off his plan to burn the Muslim holy book, following international condemnation. In New York, protests were planned for Saturday by supporters and opponents of the proposed mosque.

Obama alluded in his radio address to the contentious atmosphere, though without specifically addressing either controversy.

"This is a time of difficulty for our country," Obama said. "And it is often in such moments that some try to stoke bitterness -- to divide us based on our differences, to blind us to what we have in common.

"But on this day, we are reminded that at our best, we do not give in to this temptation," Obama said. "We stand with one another. We fight alongside one another. We do not allow ourselves to be defined by fear, but by the hopes we have for our families, for our nation, and for a brighter future."

At a White House news conference Friday Obama denounced the threatened Quran burning, said Muslims have the same right as any other religion to build near ground zero and issued a full-throated appeal for religious tolerance, reminding Americans: "We are not at war against Islam."

In the GOP's weekly address, Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., echoed Obama's plea for a common purpose. Kyl called for the country to "recapture the unity that allowed us to come together as a nation to confront a determined enemy."

But without mentioning the president by name, Kyl seemed to question the Obama administration's commitment to the war on terror begun by his predecessor, George W. Bush. Obama recently declared an end to combat missions in Iraq even as he pledged to renew efforts to prosecute the war in Afghanistan and pursue al-Qaida terrorists.

"The fact that none of the subsequent attempts to attack us have succeeded seems to have removed some of the urgency and commitment so necessary to succeed in war," Kyl said.

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