The Horror Novelist Who’s Known Evil IRL | Fishing to Survive Climate Change

www.ozy.com [OZY.COM]( [VIEW ONLINE]( 10 MUST READS TODAY [Daily Dose]( Sunday Oct 27, 2019 1 [Fast Forward]( [Fast Forward]( [Is Latin America’s Turn to the Right Waning?]( Economic mismanagement is bringing down the region's leaders — left and right. During his campaign to be Brazil’s president in 2018, Jair Bolsonaro was stabbed by a man in the crowd — an attack that left him “almost dead” when he got to hospital, according to his son Flavio. But the controversial congressman — dubbed the “Trump of the Tropics” — came back to life to win the election. Yet now his government and other right-wing administrations in Latin America are seeing their popularity wane, prompting some to ask whether the man with the knife could be lurking in the crowd again, at least metaphorically, to take another stab. [READ MORE]( 2 [Rising Stars]( [Rising Stars]( [The New Queen of Horror Has Seen the Real Thing Up Close]( The horrors Alma Katsu witnessed during her time at the CIA and NSA inspire her hit historical fiction. Alma Katsu spent more than three decades witnessing horror. It was part of her job: Katsu spent 25 years at the National Security Agency and eight years at the CIA. She still works as a consultant for the government, “but that’s all I can say,” she tells me with a little chuckle, taking a sip of Orangina. I want her to follow that up with “or I’ll have to kill you,” but that’s too Hollywood. Plus, I don’t want to offend a woman who spent decades clandestinely planning missions to protect our country — which left her with bouts of PTSD and a neurological disorder. We’re at a French bistro in suburban D.C. far from where she was born, in Alaska, but close to where she spent her career after growing up “on the wrong side of the tracks” in Massachusetts, near Lexington and Concord. Katsu, 59, knows evil. In the 1990s, she ran “complex contingency operations” to stomp out mass atrocities around the globe. She’s used that knowledge to launch her second career as a popular horror writer. [READ MORE]( 3 [Fast Forward]( [Fast Forward]( [How Climate Change Is Pushing This Desert State to Fish]( Somaliland doesn’t have a history of fishing. Now it’s building its economy around it. Danish shipowner Per Gullestrup had been through the trauma of negotiating the release of his vessel and crew — hijacked by Somali pirates — when he decided to tackle the problem at its source by developing alternative opportunities for local communities. He established Fair Fishing, a nonprofit organization aimed at creating jobs, driving economic growth and improving nutrition and food security, all through fishing. War-torn Somalia wasn’t an option, so he started operations in Somaliland in 2011, with support from its stable government. Unlike Somalia, Somaliland has no history of fishing outside the small coastal city of Berbera. But seven years after Gullestrup’s decision, Fair Fishing isn’t alone. The self-declared state that isn’t recognized as an independent entity internationally is emerging as the unlikely home of a fishing industry that’s generating jobs, drawing back Somalilanders who had left for other countries, empowering women and changing diets. [READ MORE]( 4 [The Huddle]( [Baseball’s Ted Williams Was Fueled — and Tormented — by Anger]( The game’s greatest hitter ever was haunted by a burning fire of resentment. 5 [Good Sh*t]( [The Unlikely Home of a Thriving Serval Population]( These near-threatened cats found a way to survive at the world’s largest coal liquefaction plant. 6 [Fast Forward]( [Can a Modern Rail System Help Fix Qatar’s Blockade-Hit Economy?]( The Saudi Arabia–led blockade has hurt Qatar’s economy. Now the gas-rich nation is turning to domestic entrepreneurship for a revival. 7 [Wildcard]( [Sexy Crazy? Or Crazy Sexy?]( OZY’s Eugene S. Robinson addresses queries from the love-weary in ”Sex With Eugene.” 8 [Acumen]( [Stokvel Saving: South Africa’s Gym Buddy for Investments]( Whether you crave a Le Creuset pot or a live sheep, these savings clubs will help you save for it. 9 [Politics & Power]( [An Election With No Facebook Ads? Meet the Digital Black Hole States]( Ahead of 2020, laws to block Russian meddling are laying the ground for ad-free elections — and extraordinary case studies. 10 [True Story]( [How Was Your Day … Norwegian Farmer in Italy?]( Liv Hylleseth decided to leave life in Norway behind to work the land in Italy. You Should Know This [OZY Goes Behind Deutschland’s Walls in States of the Nation: Germany]( OZY Media Mountain View, California 94040 This email was sent to {EMAIL} [Manage Subscriptions]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Read Online](