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- A reflection: the other faces
- By: ildefonso gutiérrez azopardo
Instigated war
Amongst an exposition of conflicts, it is easy to select a military solution. The contenders and factions of each country are provided with weapons. Part of the 600 million light arms that wander the world without control arrived at those destinies. The power of these weapons is utilized to invade territories that possess the necessary resources for progress and development of many nations. Single cuts of press can make a chronicle of announced wars in which in addition to expulsion, have caused thousands of deaths and the evacuation of hundreds of families that have to look for place to live because refugee camps don’t have the capacity to take them in. These warlike disputes are liked to constant noises of sabers and threats of coup d'etats that create an unstable atmosphere prelude of fled and abandonment.
Evasion of capital and taxes
When great capital isn’t profitable, it is taken to fiscal paradises far from the country’s economy taking with it the savings of thousands of families, leaving in misery those that are less well off that had deposited their hope of the future in banking boxes and institutions without being able to recover them.
The evasion of taxes by means of tax-free zones and threats to close force to governments to grant exemptions to those economic groups that could contribute more to the public treasury to cover the expense of health, education, and retirement that citizens require.
Destruction of the environment
Gleaning news: The fever of "coltan" is destroying the national park of Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with the consequent deterioration of its fauna and flora. The native Chilean mapuches protest for the construction of the Ralco dam in their territory. The dam of Urra in Colombia will cover an extension of 70,000 hectares with the consequent damage and expulsion of the controlling natives- katios. The “environmental judgment of the century” was in Ecuador against the transnational petroleum company Texaco for the disaster caused in the Ecuadorian Amazonía by toxic remainder spills, with a consequent contamination of the land and rivers and the almost extinction of two indigenous ethnic groups. Lumber companies in Africa and America are devastating and deserting vast territories, clearing the base of sustenance of thousands of people. The forest recovery of these areas require hundreds of years. Valleys of the chocoano rivers of Colombia have been turned into stone after the passage of dredges of the Choco' Pacific, a mining company, in search of gold and platinum.
The lack of a just commerce
Currently, international trade policies evaluate everyone with different measures, depending on whom it is applied to. Rich countries demand the liberation of the markets of southern countries with the excuse that this is the only way for economic growth, but they do not apply for the same liberalization policies. Northern countries have protectionist policies, establishing strong commercial barriers to protect their markets. According to experts, tariff barriers annually cost developing countries $100,000 million, twice of what it receives for development aid. One of the clear cases is the commercialization of coffee; one of the raw materials that moves the most currency in the world. In spite of the high prices obtained bye the Coffee Producing Countries Association a couple of years back, speculation comes from great multinationals thanks to the enormous capacity of purchase and storage in order to raise or lower prices. Consequences are paid by workers, that before the increase of the costs of maintaining coffee plantations and low prices, lose their jobs and lands. Lead by desperation, they leave everything behind in search of a job at whatever cost.
Source:
OpenStax, Immigration in the united states and spain: considerations for educational leaders. OpenStax CNX. Jul 26, 2010 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col11174/1.28
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