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Argentina is an exception that reactionary apologists like to bring up.
Of course to me that opens up the whole el cuadillio(the man on horse back)
mentality. The feudal mindset of Spanish colonialism, the role of
the Roman Catholic church and its dogma of papal infallibility & The
Inquisition and let's not forget about the "compassionate" fascism of
Franco while we are at it!
<p>I don't doubt for a minute that the rich and the super-rich of Britain
and the United States acting through their corporations, military/police
assistance and <b>acting in concert with the</b> <b>local reactionary rich
and super-rich have together done terrible harm in and to Latin America.</b>
<p>Tom Lehman
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<p>Fabian Balardini wrote:
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<p>On Fri, 06 Aug 1999 09:29:41 Tom Lehman wrote:
<br>>Stop at a gas station to get air for your tires in a minority neighborhood
it will cost you 50 cents---go to a white neighborhood air for your tires
will be free! I believe the economic term is price discrimination.
I think this accounts for a lot of what goes on in Latin America---a small
mostly white European minority of rich and super-rich lord it over the
indianos, mestizos and zambos of "their" country.
<p>Being from Latin America myself I'm not sure whether I should be pissed
or feel sorry about your ignorant and racist stereotype of latin culture.
But after so many years living in this country I am ready for americans
and even "leftist" americans to surprise me with these kind of statements
about Latin America.
<p>Two points of clarification:
<br>1) The racial problem in latin america is deeper than your superficial
american view of black vs white. Yes, whites rule to the ridiculous
level of having a German looking president in Guatemala, but to go from
this to a theory of inflation where whites can increase prices as they
please because the indianos, and the rest of the other american racial
categories you want to use, will passively go along with it is an insult
to the everyday struggle these people undergo resisting and fighting for
a better society. From your perspective it must be very hard to understand
Allende's Chile, Nicaragua Sandinista, Che's Cuba, Colombia's FARC, Brazil's
landless movement, etc.
<p>2) Not all countries in Latin America can be described as a bunch of
guys fucking over brown people. In Uruguay and Argentina (approx. 40 million
) where 85%+ of the population is white, you have blond/blue/eye kids living
in complete poverty, white people in power fucking over white workers.
So your discrimination based theory of inflation is a ridiculous way of
explaining the Argentinian hyperinflation in the late eighties and high
inflation in Uruguay during the same time.
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