already said Rulfo in his beautiful and sad tale "is that we are very poor ... here ... here everything goes from bad to worse! (1) And it seems that the "third world" as we call it, as well us goes.
The main problem is no longer a question only the misfortunes of nature (with or without machines that they control it), nor installed corruption, which more than one problem is a direct consequence of the original problem, nor incompetence of many of our political leaders to pursue their own business ... but rather, our history, which we have not learned enough to acquire the strength we need to end once and for all the oppression they are, were and will remain, but do nothing about it, subject .
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No one can be indifferent to the tragedy that is today the people of Haiti, but we really know about this country? only know of the poverty, chaos and corruption ... is because that is what they want us to be impressed?
late eighteenth century Haiti produced 60% of coffee and 75% of sugar consumed in Europe. Revenues and benefits of this was obtained were produced by the 500,000 slaves who made this possible and enjoyed by 50,000 white settlers. Inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution, the slaves led by Toussaint Louverture, the "black Spartacus", revolted. Despite three long, hard years to drive this war and the 43,000 troops sent by Napoleon to defend their colonial interests, the insurgents won for the first time a racial and anti-colonial war, which would give rise to a new sovereign state.
course and the former colonial world, nor the current imperialist system could allow the example of Haiti was copied by other colonies. With or without slavery, even centuries later, the rebellion and independence of nations that own the resources are not welcome. So, that despite the various political boycotts, economic aggression and other forms of coercion, well known to all in 1970, Haiti still retained some economic prosperity in agriculture, especially. All this would quickly obscured when the Reagan-Bush Plan imposed by Washington, forced to remove import tariffs on rice, staple of local culture.
U.S. rice, subsidized, therefore cheaper than the local farm families ruined, before self, which had to migrate to cities to feed the thick strips of peripheral belts, mired in poverty and marginalization. (2)
victims of policies of economic strangulation, political and social development of the major powers led by the U.S. especially, can be counted in the millions, in all countries of South America, Central America, Africa, etc.
In Colombia, Senator Jorge Enrique Robledo , an opponent of the ruling party of current President Uribe and former member of the party MOIR (Independent Revolutionary Workers Movement) now part of the Alternative Democratic Pole , appears intensely against the proposed free trade treaty by the U.S.. Because
agricultural economic policies that destroy small producers and enrich foreign capital and small bureaucracies, condemning the production industries and national extinction and through her website http://robledosoyyo.com/ , using new technologies such as twitter, facebook, you tube, etc, the senator explains the various points at which his group is opposed not to the modernization of industry, or agreements and trade agreements between your country and the powers, but this type of adverse treatment poorest countries.
Thus Colombia today, recipient of U.S. military bases in theory outstanding security of the region and of course the ever present "drug trafficking," Latin American version of "terrorism", discusses their health policies, decrees social emergency plan and a new agriculture "Agro, Ingreso Seguro" (AIS) in the middle of re-election climate for many unconstitutional, the current president Uribe.
While the ruling party gets the money intended for farmers theory, we find that rural poverty and destitution come to 67 and 30 percent respectively mind and concentration of land is the worst in the world. In the government of Alvaro Uribe added two million displaced and imports of agricultural products from six to ten million tons, but are still officially under NAFTA. (3)
A good example of this problematic, and the deceptions that are applied to the population, is the case region of Chocó, Colombia where each year are operated on average 4 000 hectares Chocó forests to extract timber and selling it in Medellin, Cartagena, Pereira, Buenaventura, Cali and Bogota. But Chocoanos live in poorly armed in mud, puddles and garbage, no sewage system and often even without power.
black and indigenous communities are the sole owners of the land and 50 varieties of wood from when the Act 70 of 1993 they recognized the ownership of the territories where they have historically lived. So, from that time, large areas that were considered by the State, became his property.
The trap of the matter is, if not in print. In 2007 the Ministry of Environment issued the resolution 1393, which states that anyone who owns a land and want to use the resources in it, must make a request to the government that decides, in this case, the amount of wood in cubic meters that can be cut.
To request such permission, community councils and the guards must have a study that says how many trees are in the territory of which species are and what steps are thick and tall. They must submit a plan of use, which tell what is going to be there, what equipment will be used and how they will respect the environment. Developing these documents
worth a fortune that may not have the Choco Indians. To order a mining permit 10 thousand cubic meters, which is the average calling, you should invest only in studies of at least 10 million pesos.
intermediaries appear then. They rarely come into contact with the legal representatives of community councils or town councils with the Indians, but with the private contractor that processes the letters.
The broker gives the chainsaw, food and fuel that went into the jungle for months, cut wood, bring to the streams and transported to collection sites. Generally, they should take it to the headwaters of the larger municipalities, where the merchant handles their business networks. When the loggers arrive, is settled the value of wood and are starting to discount the fees they must pay for a chainsaw, food, gasoline and boats spent the same saw. "Ultimately, people end up working for a plate of food because as charged and ignores the efforts made and the time spent working and, beyond that, goes on duty, "says a black leader who has observed the situation. (4)
wars, tragedies, drug trafficking or terrorism, they serve as excuses for the rich countries to undermine the freedoms reproducibility and skip right over, raise capital and political and social control. While we see the "chaos" in Haiti muetsra justify CNN the U.S. presence to curb the alleged vandalism of the waves of poor people desperate ... in Afghanistan, Iraq or Palestine, we have the same impression, without thinking that perhaps not everything we see is so real, and reality as chaotic.
real Chaos is not shown on TV or read in the official journals, is one in which the powers forcing free nations to coexist in poverty, accepting international regulations counter to their political economic interests and social accepting military and political tutelage of false or international humanitarian organizations "neutral" being denied and deprived of real economic systems "free" which prioritizes the individual against the gain, where is genuinely seeking political solutions and productivity for a country, the real chaos is one that divides health and decide who lives or dies according to the contents of his pocket, is one that educates miseducate is devoted to the future and restricted and filters Access to free education to the majority of the population, is one that controls our lives.
The current financial system can not survive without poverty, can not exist without the chaos, so as one who feeds the fire of a stove, the system feeds the retina, and daily life. I once worked slaves with no freedom, not killed by an angry boss or a meal. Today slavery is prohibited by law, but not so the alienation. And so that the "new slaves" of the XXI century in addition to work from sunrise to sunset, eat. A deadly weapon is, until you find who triggered.
And in the end, in any poor country the problem is not poverty in itself, but the foreign imposcicion is subject to the state.
While a small group of bureaucrats left the back door ajar in exchange for a substantial sum, and the media repeat the chaos and marginalization, we go to bed believing that we are poor, when in reality we are impoverished.
SOURCES (1) "is that we are very poor," Juan Rulfo - Mexico:
1918-1986 (2) "Learning from Haiti" by Ignacio Ramonet - February 2010. Number
172 (3) "The truth about agro secure income" By Jorge Enrique Robledo
(4) Wood: wealth and poverty in Chocó-By Juan Esteban Mejia, Special Envoy
