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Judi Lynn

(160,450 posts) Thu Jun 26, 2014, 04:03 AM Jun 2014

Venezuela: LA leaders condemn 'siege'

Venezuela: LA leaders condemn 'siege'
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
By Ewan Robertson

At the G77 plus China Summit held in Bolivia that ended on June 15, several Latin American presidents gave public backing to Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro. They called for regional unity against an bid for “conservative restoration” under way in the South American country.

The summit, held in Santa Cruz, eastern Bolivia, brought together 133 countries, about two-thirds of the member states of the United Nations.

During the opening event, the presidents of Ecuador, Bolivia and Cuba made declarations in support of Venezuela. All four are members of the regional Bolivarian Alliance of the People's of Our America (ALBA), an eight-member anti-imperialist bloc founded by Venezuela and Cuba in 2004.

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The latest opinion poll in Venezuela, conducted by private firm International Consulting Services, put approval for Maduro at 62%.

In his speech, Maduro said the countries of the global South should solve their problems without outside intervention. “The solution to the South’s problems is in the South,” he said. “And in this world where the South can already walk on its own feet, and think with its own head, it’s time for the North to learn to respect the men and women of the South.”

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the south's problems kg4jxt Jun 2014 #1

kg4jxt

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1. the south's problems

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Thu Jun 26, 2014, 06:40 AM

Jun 2014

can surely be solved by the south, but only when the leaders learn to "think with their own head" - which historically they have not been wont to do. They think more with their wallet. Of course that has become more and more of a custom in the USA too, but in much of the south the leaders ride on the back of a relatively uneducated electorate which they show considerable reluctance to educate. It is only human capital that makes a country wealthy - though abundant natural resources can certainly make an INDIVIDUAL wealthy. Without more investment in education, the nations of South America and Africa, in particular, will continue to lag behind the developments in "the north".

Of course, we can also debate whether what is happening in the north is really to be considered "progress" . . . a higher standard of living that is unsustainable is not the kind of progress that the south should seek.

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