• Abstract and Figures
• Public Full-text

VENEZUELA JOAN JETT HISTORY ERODED AWAY AT RISK OF LOSING AT 60, ROCKER AS WITH SEAS RISING, A PUSH A FISCAL LIFELINE DEFIANT AS EVER TO SAVE ANCIENT HERITAGE PAGE 7 | BUSINESS PAGE 18 | CULTURE PAGE 6 | SCIENCE .. INTERNATIONAL EDITION | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2018 For Brazil, Sigh of relief delusions of in Canada democracy over revised Vanessa Barbara trade accord Contributing Writer TORONTO OPINION Deal with Washington SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL Last month, just a few weeks before voting day, Cabo not seen as huge win, but Daciolo announced a new strategy for expected to ease tensions the presidential elections here: He would spend 21 days in the mountains BY CATHERINE PORTER fasting and praying. Mr. Daciolo is one of a dozen candi- More than a celebration, it ended with a dates on the ballot for the first round of huge sigh of relief. the elections, which will take place Canadians awoke on Monday to the Sunday, and hilltop retreats aren’t his news of a trade deal with the United only unconventional election strategy: States, Canada’s largest trading partner, He recorded a video asking his sup- and more important, a reprieve from the porters to stop donating money to his threat of crippling auto tariffs that Pres- campaign and, instead, to pray for the ident Trump had been holding over the country. country for months. One of his priorities, he says, is to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of protect Brazil from the domination of Canada came away with a few items “the bankers, the New World Order, considered sacred for his nation’s eco- the Illuminati and the Freemasonry.” nomic security: a dispute resolution Mr. Daciolo has also boldly denounced system for companies that feel unjustly plans for the estab- targeted with taxes and a distant expira- Brazilian lishment of Ursal, tion date to the agreement. presidential the Union of Socialist In exchange, Canada promised to Republics of Latin crack open its long-protected dairy mar- politics have America — a sup- ket — the target of Mr. Trump’s Twitter spiraled into posed conspiracy to attacks and rally tirades for months — to chaos. What’s suppress all borders American competition, a concession a voter to do? between our coun- that drew immediate anger from poli- tries in order to ticians in Quebec, home to nearly half of make one single the country’s 11,200 dairy farms. Communist Latin American nation, At a news conference in Ottawa on which is, um, not a thing. Monday, Mr. Trudeau called the agree- Brazilians are bracing for the end of ment “a good deal,” although he ac- a peculiar election period. knowledged the trade-offs. Another candidate, former President “Like any important negotiation, we Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the front- had to make compromises,” he said, runner in the polls — up until at least a speaking in French. But, he added, “to- month ago, when his eligibility was day is a good day for Canada.” rejected by the Supreme Electoral The agreement does not eliminate the Court — has been in prison since April. steep tariffs on steel and aluminum that Mr. da Silva, one of the most popular Mr. Trump imposed in the spring. In- politicians in Brazil’s history, is serving stead, Mr. Trudeau said his country a 12-year prison term for corruption would continue to negotiate for their re- and money laundering. moval. But his trial was controversial. “The great failure of this trade deal About three-quarters of Brazilians PHOTOGRAPHS BY ADAM DEAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES was not negotiating an end to the steel think that powerful people just want to Clockwise from top: Soldiers carrying body bags to a mass grave at a cemetery in Palu, a city of about 380,000 on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi that was hit particularly hard and aluminum tariffs,” said Philip Cross, keep him out of the election, according by the earthquake and tsunami; an injured woman lying outside the hospital; and rescuers searching for bodies at the Roa Roa, a once-cheery business hotel in Donggala. the former chief economic analyst at to a survey by Ipsos, a research com- Statistics Canada, a government pany. His supporters consider Mr. da agency, because it tacitly left the door Silva, the most prominent politician in open to Mr. Trump to use the same na- the left-leaning Workers’ Party, a vic- tional protection justification to lay tim of a biased judicial system. They more tariffs in the future, regardless of say the evidence against him was any trade deal. weak, largely based on unreliable An island plunged into chaos “He can invoke national security un- testimony obtained through plea bar- der this deal and slap tariffs presumably gains. PALU, INDONESIA In the wake of a 7.5-magnitude earth- oners roaming free. still trapped under fallen buildings. on anything he wants,” said Mr. Cross, In August, the United Nations Hu- quake and a 20-foot tsunami on Friday Ms. Wati had been in a jostling crowd, Frantic rescue efforts were hampered who is now a senior fellow at the Mac- man Rights Committee, a panel of that by Tuesday had killed at least 1,234 watching as around 20 people attacked by limited heavy equipment, and the po- donald-Laurier Institute, a research independent experts, requested that people, including 120 foreigners, the an A.T.M. with pickaxes, she said. lice were busy dealing with looters. group based in Ottawa. “I’m not sure we the government “take all necessary After quake and tsunami, eastern Indonesian city of Palu was still Nearby, the police shot in the air and While President Joko Widodo of Indone- got the guaranteed secure access to the measures to ensure that Mr. da Silva reeling. then sprayed bullets to clear the plun- sia said he welcomed international aid, U.S. that free trade was supposed to give can enjoy and exercise his political aid is slow, food is scarce Concerns about aftershocks rose on derers and onlookers. none had yet reached the disaster zone. us.” rights while in prison.” According to and prisoners roam free Tuesday morning, when a magni- Ms. Wati, 20, jobless and the mother of At the site of some collapsed buildings Still, several economists said that al- the experts, he should be allowed to tude-6.0 earthquake rocked the remote one, was hit in the melee. Even with workers were forced to work by hand, though the deal would most likely not run as a candidate in the 2018 presi- BY ADAM DEAN, HANNAH BEECH island of Sumba, roughly 1,000 miles medicine administered at the hospital, pulling away chunks of rubble. bolster the Canadian economy, it was BARBARA, PAGE 15 AND RICHARD C. PADDOCK south of Palu, prompting residents to she was in tears from the pain and Officials warned that scenes of devas- CANADA, PAGE 5 run in panic from their homes. shock. tation were being replayed all along the The New York Times publishes opinion The bodies piled up in the police hospital In Palu, hungry residents were beg- Days after the natural disasters, Palu, central coast of the island of Sulawesi, HIGHLIGHTS OF A TRADE DEAL from a wide range of perspectives in had begun to bloat and decompose when ging for aid, armed men were foraging a city of about 380,000 people, was con- especially in remote regions. The death A new North American trade deal hopes of promoting constructive debate Sarah Wati arrived with a bullet wound shuttered stores, crowds were besieging sumed with the task of identifying the toll, magnified by the failure of a series includes major adjustments that will about consequential questions. in her foot. the airport and mass jailbreaks left pris- dead and ministering to the living, some INDONESIA, PAGE 4 affect commerce in the region. PAGE 5 With a famous nude, more to reveal PARIS to Constance Quéniaux, dancer at the Paris Opera, courtesan, mistress of rich men, companion of a celebrated com- poser and — improbably at the end — a A face and an identity, well-to-do older lady living on one of the most chic streets in Paris, the Rue Ro- at last, for a scandalous yale. Considering the scandal prompted 19th-century painting by the picture, Ms. Quéniaux’s rags-to- riches odyssey is a neat twist appreciat- BY ADAM NOSSITER ed both by the historian who made the discovery, Claude Schopp, and by Sylvie For over 150 years, the famous paint- Aubenas, an archivist and historian at ing’s origin was as mysterious as its sub- France’s National Library, who backs ject — a meticulous close-up of a wom- Mr. Schopp’s unexpected finding. an’s genitals — was considered un- “My only contribution was to make speakable. No head, no arms, one this object a subject,” said Mr. Schopp, breast: only a torso, finely rendered. NADAR/BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE, VIA AP HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES whose account of the life of Alexandre Who posed for this notorious nonpor- Constance Quéniaux, left, has been identified with near certainty as the woman whose Dumas the younger won France’s high- trait by the celebrated troublemaker of nude torso is the subject of “The Origin of the World” by Gustave Courbet, right. est prize for biography last year. “Now 19th-century French realist painting, she’s something else besides flesh. I Gustave Courbet? wanted to restore a person,” he said in The painting itself, “The Origin of the Lacan for many years, is now at the called the work “pornography” but also an interview.

Load more

  1

Copy Link