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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:
14.0pt">1. <span style="color:black">The international labor division consists of
some countries specializing in winning and others in losing; the latter
continue to work as servants of the former. </span></span><span style="color:black"></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:
14.0pt">2. <span style="color:black">The defeat of the have-nots has always
been implicit in the victory of the haves; the labor of the have-nots has
always generated their own poverty since it has fed the wealth of the haves.</span><span style="color:blue"></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:
14.0pt">3. <span style="color:black">The strength of the globalized system
rests on the necessary inequality of the parties that make it up --and this
inequality assumes ever more dramatic proportions. The dominant classes in poor
countries have no interest in finding out whether patriotism could be more
profitable than treason or if begging and dependence are the only possible way
for their countries’ international politics. Countries thus end up mortgaging
their sovereignty, because we are told ‘there is no other way’.</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:blue"></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">4.
<span style="color:black">The globalized system is very rational from the point
of view of their foreign owners and of our ‘hambourgeoisies’ that have sold their
soul to the devil at a price that would have shamed even Faust.</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:blue"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">5.
<span style="color:black">But the globalized system failed to foresee a minor
thorn in its side: what we have too much of is people. And people reproduce.
They make love with enthusiasm and without precautions. More and more, people
are left on the verge of the road, jobless. This systematic violence, not
always apparent, but real, is mounting: its crimes cannot be read in the red
press, but in UN statistics. So, the empire gets worried: unable to produce more
bread, it does what it can to get rid of those sitting around the table. “
Fight poverty! Kill a beggar!”, a master of black humor wrote on a wall in the
city of La Paz.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:
14.0pt;color:black">6. The globalized<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>system thus convinces poor people that poverty is the result of not
avoiding having children. So it now proposes, with more panic than generosity,
resolving the problems: Population control measures are the preferred policy. </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:blue"></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
color:black">7. We have social classes, and the oppression of one class by
another; the system calls that ‘adopting a Western lifestyle’.</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:blue"></span></span></p>
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color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">8. T</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">he ‘order of
the day’ is the daily-humiliation-of-the-masses --like it or not, an order
nonetheless, we must say.</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:blue"></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">9.
But Poverty is not written in the stars; underdevelopment is not the result of
an obscure will of God. People are waking up, and are demanding changes.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>(</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Eduardo Galeano, Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina)</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:blue"></span></span></p>
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