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Bickford on the Brazilian Need for Speed
A properly organized motorcade provides an essential first impression for a visiting dignitary. If smoothly executed, it literally gets a visit off to a good start. Thus, we place considerable effort on getting it right. In Brazil in the early 1980s we…
Le drapeau des Auriverde
Au moment d’atterrir à Sao Paulo, sous un ciel maussade, je me demande ce que nous venons chercher dans ce pays de la démesure étalé sur presque la moitié du continent. Un territoire d’abord occupé par des peuples indigènes. Développé par la…
Spooked and Sodden: Two Vignettes “de las Americas”
It was my first missing persons case as a newly-minted consular officer. At the time, I was about two weeks on the job at the embassy in Mexico City. One Monday morning I received a call from a woman in Vancouver who…
David Bryce Wilson
David Wilson and I joined the Department of External Affairs in1947. We first met that summer in the then Political III Division (later American and Far Eastern). Thus began a friendship that lasted for more than 50 years and came to an…
Nancy Stiles 1950-2001
Nancy Stiles was buried in Ottawa on Wednesday, January 24th before her friends, family and colleagues. She had lived only fifty years but all of us had memories of her to last us much longer.
Gently Down the Stream…
The most popular movie running in the quiet and very hot Brazilian river port of Tabatinga (pronounced Tabachinga) was Chitanic (work it out). I hoped this wasn’t an omen.
