[lbo-talk] Rwanda 'denial'

[Jim Devine]

On 4/30/06, Joseph Wanzala <jwanzala at hotmail.com> wrote:
>The same Yoweri Museveni had become the darling of the International
Monetary Fund, the World Bank and United States Diplomacy since the
middle of the 1980s. He was another of the former leftist guerrilla
leaders who came over to the gospel of good governance, structural
adjustment, privatization and, judging by the turn of events, the
remodelling of African geography.<
[quoting Robin Philpot?]

FWIW, in "Our of Control: AIDS and the Corruption of Medical Science,"
in the March 2006 issue of HARPER'S MAGAZINE, the author Celia Farber
refers to Museveni as a "benevolent dictator" (p. 42).

Her story makes more sense if Museveni is a neo-liberal thug, who went
along with the highly defective -- indeed, destructive -- drug trials
that she discusses. With that piece of the puzzle in place, the story
is more like that of Le Carré's THE CONSTANT GARDENER, in which the
powers that be (including the local government) were in cahoots with
Pharma.

--
Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence
of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles