Reply #110: Brazil: Gaddafi’s sneaky nip-and-tuck

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Source: Financial Times

September 8, 2011 10:20 pm by Iona Teixeira Stevens


Last week, Brazilian television featured a local – if bizarre – angle on the Libya story. The ousted Libyan dictator, Colonel Muammer Gaddafi, it seems is one of the more notorious past foreign customers of an industry Brazil is famous for – plastic surgery.


“He (Gaddafi) said he was in power for some time and did not want to give the idea to younger people that he was an old man,” said one of the colonel’s Brazilian plastic surgeons, Liacyr Ribeiro, on television. He and his colleague described how they flew to Libya 16 years ago to give the dictator hair implants and a facelift.

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But just in case people get the idea that plastic surgery can solve all of their problems, they only need look to Gaddafi. His facelift did not save him from the Arab spring.


In fact, according to his doctors, he trusted no one even back then, opting for a lesser procedure because he did not want to submit to a general anaesthetic, which would have left him vulnerable to a coup, or worse.


http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2011/09/08/brazil-gaddafi%E2%80%99s-sneaky-nip-and-tuck/