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Sunday, May 18, 2008
The World Hunger Is Growing (Updated)
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I am writing this blog to simplify things to myself, and anyone who cares to read the stuff. This is my life's long research project. I got a chance here to write something, categorise them, simplify them etc. But the funny thing is...please don't laugh it is not that funny.... most of the subjects I write about are depressing. Does it mean I am a depressing person or a depressed person? And what the hell is the difference? No wonder I have few friends now, than those days. But seriously I find various governmental, political fuck ups interesting. And beleave me they are depressing stuff like terrorism, war, repression..ha ha... put a fucking d in front instead of the r init?. Shite, I am in a good mood today.
Now this is what happened in Mexico. In me own words. By 1980 Mexico was heavily in debt. This was the famous Latin American debt crisis.
So they had to go begging to the WB. Now the WB does not just lend money, they lend money with certain conditions. “Unprecedented thoroughgoing interventionism” they call it but, when at home, it just means that wB intervenes in the national and local government fully. So what do they do? hey order the
exican gov to scrap national and local gov laws concerning controls on wages, national and local gov laws concerning controls on labour laws, and privotis the nationally controlled public service institutions like gas electrics water and all the natural resorces as oil, gas and minerals, well list goes on.
Interest payments which was 19% in 1982 went up to 57% by 1988. Capital expenditure ie the money gov spends on the country went down from 19.3% to 4.4 %. In UK, the farmers get a subsidy for growing stuff, and not growing stuff. So our farmers, although they complain about their poverty, they are hell of a lot better off, as we can see in our own country side. So in Mexico, they had to get rid of the low interest credit given by the gov, the subsidies, the farmer's support by the gov etc. That created powerty amongst the peasant farmers to start with and the peasants had to move into urban areas in seach of work and created the ghettoes. That become a huge problem for the Mexican gov.
In 1994 NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)was born with vengeance in mind. With this agreement the whole neoliberal agenda was implememted. Thia got rid of the remaining powers Mexico had about its agriculture, like the State Agricultural Marketing Board. Two major coporations Cargills on the US side and Maseca on the Mexico side grew into the only power in the corn business in Mexico. Now both companies are US owned. And the middle order farmers went bancrupt and the rest was bought by thetwo companies.
"According to a 2003 Carnegie Endowment report, imports of US agricultural products threw at least 1.3 million farmers out of work — many of whom have since found their way to the United States."
During this time neoliberals have taken over the gov of Mexico. And no one can bring any new laws in support of the low and middle farmers.
So now we know that there is enough corn in the silos but the big companies are keeping the prices high.
If you cannot find the links in this blog, I have majority of them filed, Email me!
I am writing this blog to simplify things to myself, and anyone who cares to read the stuff. This is my life's long research project. I got a chance here to write something, categorise them, simplify them etc. But the funny thing is...please don't laugh it is not that funny.... most of the subjects I write about are depressing. Does it mean I am a depressing person or a depressed person? And what the hell is the difference? No wonder I have few friends now, than those days. But seriously I find various governmental, political fuck ups interesting. And beleave me they are depressing stuff like terrorism, war, repression..ha ha... put a fucking d in front instead of the r init?. Shite, I am in a good mood today.
Now this is what happened in Mexico. In me own words. By 1980 Mexico was heavily in debt. This was the famous Latin American debt crisis.
So they had to go begging to the WB. Now the WB does not just lend money, they lend money with certain conditions. “Unprecedented thoroughgoing interventionism” they call it but, when at home, it just means that wB intervenes in the national and local government fully. So what do they do? hey order the
exican gov to scrap national and local gov laws concerning controls on wages, national and local gov laws concerning controls on labour laws, and privotis the nationally controlled public service institutions like gas electrics water and all the natural resorces as oil, gas and minerals, well list goes on.
Interest payments which was 19% in 1982 went up to 57% by 1988. Capital expenditure ie the money gov spends on the country went down from 19.3% to 4.4 %. In UK, the farmers get a subsidy for growing stuff, and not growing stuff. So our farmers, although they complain about their poverty, they are hell of a lot better off, as we can see in our own country side. So in Mexico, they had to get rid of the low interest credit given by the gov, the subsidies, the farmer's support by the gov etc. That created powerty amongst the peasant farmers to start with and the peasants had to move into urban areas in seach of work and created the ghettoes. That become a huge problem for the Mexican gov.
In 1994 NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)was born with vengeance in mind. With this agreement the whole neoliberal agenda was implememted. Thia got rid of the remaining powers Mexico had about its agriculture, like the State Agricultural Marketing Board. Two major coporations Cargills on the US side and Maseca on the Mexico side grew into the only power in the corn business in Mexico. Now both companies are US owned. And the middle order farmers went bancrupt and the rest was bought by thetwo companies.
"According to a 2003 Carnegie Endowment report, imports of US agricultural products threw at least 1.3 million farmers out of work — many of whom have since found their way to the United States."
During this time neoliberals have taken over the gov of Mexico. And no one can bring any new laws in support of the low and middle farmers.
So now we know that there is enough corn in the silos but the big companies are keeping the prices high.
If you cannot find the links in this blog, I have majority of them filed, Email me!
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