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  • El Sistema is probably, and remarkably, the only organism immune to politics in one of the world's most highly politicised societies.

    Amo, lloro, canto, sueño Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • El Sistema is currently providing an education for a quarter of a million children and teenagers that the majority of them wouldn't get otherwise.

    Amo, lloro, canto, sueño Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • El Sistema is attractive and inspirational precisely because it feeds into our bourgeois Eurocentric fantasy of the poor unwashed masses being saved by Western high art.

    And furthermore... 2007

  • El Sistema is currently providing an education for a quarter of a million children and teenagers that the majority of them wouldn't get otherwise.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • The opposition to El Sistema is basically this: Chávez is awful, El Sistema has connections with Chávez, therefore it's tainted, no matter how much good it does.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • El Sistema is attractive and inspirational precisely because it feeds into our bourgeois Eurocentric fantasy of the poor unwashed masses being saved by Western high art.

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • The opposition to El Sistema is basically this: Chávez is awful, El Sistema has connections with Chávez, therefore it's tainted, no matter how much good it does.

    Witches can be right, giants can be good Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • El Sistema is probably, and remarkably, the only organism immune to politics in one of the world's most highly politicised societies.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • Satter wrote that Solntsevo had close ties to a Russian company called Sistema, which is linked to Moscow Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov and to the IVK, the information technology company, of which Novitsky was director.

    Jamestown Foundation: All Publications 2008

  • Early warning system: We have developed the world's first earthquake warning system, known as Sistema de Alerta Sísmica.

    Marcelo Ebrard: Preparing for the Next Earthquake Marcelo Ebrard 2011

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