hey guys,
i don't mean to nitpick in the midst of the truly amazing rescue of the miners, but you keep catching my attention by making it sound like you're writing for "the economist." for example:
"The race to save the miners has thrust Chile into a spotlight it has often sought but rarely experienced. While lauded for its economic management and austerity, the nation has often found the world’s attention trained more on its human rights violations and natural disasters than on uplifting moments."
- Alexei Barrionuevo and Simon Romero, NYT, 10/13/2010
your imagined universal approval board lauding chile's austerity - presumably the same one that's "concerned" about brasil turning to the left - does not exist. a lot of people around the world, especially in latin america, are not so cool with government "austerity" measures, especially when they leave people uneducated, hungry, and homeless.
since you don't give us any idea of what kind of time frame you're talking about - but also since chilean human rights abuses have really been a non-issue during michelle bachelet's presidency - i have to wonder if you're talking about this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet
...whose austerity measures and economic management forced more than half of the population into abject poverty for a couple of decades, opened the country's natural resources to unrestrained international exploitation, and did away with any sort of leverage that well-represented workers might exercise. such as, just off the top of my head, safely maintained gold and copper mines.
please check this out, if you haven't already: http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine
find the whole times article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/14/world/americas/14chile.html?_r=1&ref=global-home
Nenhum comentário:
Postar um comentário