Fast Track Authority

Frances Bolton (PHI) fbolton at chuma.cas.usf.edu
Wed Sep 9 17:04:08 PDT 1998


Or perhaps it was the Nation? They just in the last couple of months did a piece on this. The current NACLA (at least the one most recently available in the wasteland of Tampa) is the sexual politics issue.

Frances

On Wed, 9 Sep 1998 Meredith_Glueck at edf.org wrote:


>
> From: Meredith Glueck at EDF on 09/09/98 04:47 PM
>
> Subject: Re: Fast Track Authority
>
> There's an article in the latest (i think) NACLA that has a whole long
> article about Chile. The author was there during Allende and then during
> the coup. He talks about the difference today. He talks about the extreme
> divide between rich and poor and how everyone is buying nearly everything
> on credit. Also, there's something about the privatization of pensions or
> social security-and how its kindof a scam. ( i'd have to read it again or
> maybe someone else read it)
> But i think it relates to the fast track situation. Chile has been a sort
> of darling for the US, maybe outshining Mexico (given the past few year's
> financial situation) in its embrace of privatization, neoliberalism, etc.
> Rather than concentrating on creating more things to export, it'd be better
> to have $ spent on people.
> Though its not so much the trade i am against but the terms of trade, and
> all it implies. And then there's Pinochet who sort of stepped down, but
> still the US gov't never really acknowledges its involvement in the coup,
> or all the human rights abuses. Instead, just applaud all the steps he
> took towards the market.
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