{"id":23431,"date":"2018-06-12T15:14:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T20:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=23431"},"modified":"2018-06-12T15:14:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T20:14:37","slug":"anthony-bourdains-extreme-empathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/anthony-bourdains-extreme-empathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Bourdain\u2019s Extreme Empathy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After Anthony Bourdain\u2019s death, a particular kind of tribute proliferated in my social media feeds. Post after post eulogized the chef, who through his writing and globetrotting TV shows became an ambassador of the world to the United States, for his unflinching honesty and political conviction. Bourdain used his tremendous platform to explain to his audience how their own lives were entangled with those of other people.<\/p>\n
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In Laos for an episode of his CNN show, Parts Unknown<\/em>, he excoriated the CIA-waged \u201csecret war\u201d<\/a> that left the country strewn with unexploded ordnance, which still kill dozens of Laotians every year. He insisted on the humanity of people in Gaza and Iran, places rarely humanized in the American imagination. He always stressed his solidarity with undocumented workers after working for years in the restaurant industry. From Henry Kissinger to Donald Trump, Pol Pot to Mobutu, he never minced words in damning the powerful.<\/p>\n

Bourdain made these declarations in his trademark roguish style, and that\u2019s in part why you listened to him: He didn\u2019t seem to suffer fools or clich\u00e9s. His charisma sprung from a gruff confidence that\u2014along with the resources of major American television networks and the freedoms of an American passport\u2014allowed him to saunter about the globe and tell you what was what.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n