In happier days:
I don't know what's going on in that picture. Is he giving us the finger? "Siempre contigo" means "always with you." But what is "CLODO"? Wikipedia has an entry for that sequence of letters, but it's got nothing to do with Peru... or corn. It's quite French, but we see that "clodo" is slang for "homeless":
Committee for Liquidation or Subversion of Computers (CLODO) (in French: Comité Liquidant ou Détournant les Ordinateurs; 'clodo' being a slang word for the homeless) was a neo-Luddite French anarchist organization, active during the 1980s, that targeted computer companies. In 1980, after a series of attacks in the Toulouse area, they released a statement to the French media in which they explained their motivations. It read, "We are workers in the field of data processing and consequently well placed to know the current and future dangers of data processing and telecommunications. The computer is the favorite tool of the dominant. It is used to exploit, to put on file, to control, and to repress."...
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Clodo looks like it is a name that is used in South America maybe it's the bastard Latin version of Claude
Didn't I just see those two guys picking lettuce in Salinas?
I tried to get a translation for "clodo" from Spanish and came up empty.
"Clodo" may be the regional governor of Huancavelica, Glodoaldo Álvarez Oré.
Everybody knows that.
The existence of anarchist committees is one of the more delicious drolleries.
Clodo is the other guy.
Lots of yellow and green on that album cover. Interestingly, "Jaime Urbina" translates to Mello Yello
Looks like it's a nickname for a Peruvian regional governor: Clodoaldo Álvarez Oré. I couldn't find anything in English. Just this. Which I let Chrome translate for me.
Clodo is the other man in the photo. Full poster
I think Clodo is the brand name of the local hybrid seed distributor, nice promotional merchandise jackets.
Here's a site showing the full picture. Since the full quote is "Clodo y Jaime" it seems to be the other guy's name.
https://www.huachos.com/detalle/jaime-urbina-alcalde-tantarino-jaqueado-noticia-10597
I've never understood the happenings, either socially or politically in Sud America. But I am always intrigued by it. I've not traveled there. But I will before this show is over.
There was El Clodo the Bumpkin. Pretty famous in certain circles.
I don't think it's Spanish. I think it must be Peruvian slang or figure of speech. Essentially an in-joke. Someone will have to crowdsource this to their Peruvian friends.
Lots of yellow and green on that album cover. Interestingly, "Jaime Urbina" translates to Mello Yello
Quite right, Slick!
Seig Heil,
Seig heil
Right in der fuhrer's face.
Isn't it obvious? The backwards middle finger is a tribute to Spike Jones.
John Henry
Lockdown is doing nothing good in guayaquil or manaus as mary ogrady noted.
Peruvian politics are quite interesting, especially at the national level. We were there on vacation last summer, so I read a few articles about it and talked to a coworker who grew up in Lima before we left. They have had some colorful presidents who tend to go to jail with regularity. My favorite was Alan Garcia, who was president in the 80s, fled the country to avoid arrest, came back and was re-elected in 2006. He committed suicide last spring as the police were coming to arrest him in connection with a different scandal.
It's an amazing country, nevertheless. I wholeheartedly recommend a visit. Beautiful, full of nice people, and a national obsession with hamburgers than rivals my own.
Did mayor urbina impose the lockdown like whitmer pritzker lightfoot and chose to violate it?
Curfew?!?
Is the virus especially dangerous after 8pm?
"And its last rays kissed the forehead of a man and maiden fair --
He with steps so slow and weary; she with sunny, floating hair;
He with bowed head, sad and thoughtful, she, with lips all cold and white,
Struggling to keep back the murmur, "Curfew must not ring tonight!"
said...
Lockdown is doing nothing good in guayaquil or manaus as mary ogrady noted.
Or the US for that matter.
US,largely locked down, has 288 deaths/mm
Brazil, largely not locked down, has 90.
According to worldometer just now.
Standard disclaimer about untrustworthiness of any Peking Pox data from any source.
John Henry
I wrote a piece about the 1990 race between Garcia and vargas llosa for the school paper, they've had a shakeup since the fujimoristas ousted kyzinki, over the carwash fallout, and the speaker became president, I haven't really followed,
Is he giving us the finger?
If this guy is famous, then that picture is a candidate for photoshop disasters. That's an index finger made to look like a middle finger (giving himself the bird?). It actually looks like one of those giant foam hands you see in sports, except it's not giant. It's just not the hand that is really sticking out of the sleeve.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/05/el-presidente-speaks.php
For the young'uns here, the spike Jones reference is to a hit song from the early 40s that was done as a film short. It mocks hitler and the National Socialists.
There's also a Disney animated version with Donald duck that is quite amusing.
It starts "Ven der fuherer says ve are ze master race, seig heil, seig heil, right in der fuherer's face"
As they sing the "seig heil" refrain through the song, they hold up their hand in the national socialist salute.
When they do, palm out, only the middle finger is extended. I wonder how many people, like censors, or like me for a long time, never noticed it.
When it was pointed out to me it was kind of shocking. Like learning that my parents had engaged in carnal activity. Worse, they probably enjoyed it! (shudder)
I never thought of people flipping the bird in the 40s. And especially not one of the most popular bandleaders, on movie screens across the country
https://youtu.be/lWF8iRCan7I at about 30 seconds for the first example.
John Henry
narciso said...
fujimoristas ousted kyzinki
So would you consider either Fujimori or kuczynski to be "hispanic"?
They would be if the moved to the us.
John Henry
Kuczynski attended Oxford and Princeton and is a first cousin of Jean-Paul Godard. His first wife was the daughter of a long-ago Massachusetts Congressman and the sister of writer John Casey, a novelist who seems to be most famous for being the son of a long-ago Massachusetts Congressman.
Peru sounds like the Illinois of South America. Everybody in politics is corrupt and eventually the scandals come out.
"The Law of Curfew and Self Distancing" Do we all live in the Firesign Theatre now? No groatclusters delivered after curfew in sectors R and W. Who was that masked man?
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