Comments on: Colombia’s Economic Growth Fueled by Repression http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/05/colombia%e2%80%99s-economic-growth-fueled-by-repression/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:11:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: J.Ronan http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/05/colombia%e2%80%99s-economic-growth-fueled-by-repression/#comment-25207 J.Ronan Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:12:06 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2047#comment-25207 I am just disgusted at the current situation in Colombia! To be honest I did not know a thing about the situation in the nation until I read a book called Colombia: A brutal History after the story of the hostage rescure, and what I have learned there and opn this site worries me as many of my fellow Americans have no idea what is going on there. Keep up the good work. I am just disgusted at the current situation in Colombia! To be honest I did not know a thing about the situation in the nation until I read a book called Colombia: A brutal History after the story of the hostage rescure, and what I have learned there and opn this site worries me as many of my fellow Americans have no idea what is going on there. Keep up the good work.

]]> By: bigassbelle http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/05/colombia%e2%80%99s-economic-growth-fueled-by-repression/#comment-20927 bigassbelle Thu, 22 May 2008 02:48:34 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2047#comment-20927 <i>the IMF agreed to lend Colombia $2.7 billion on the condition that the government implement structural reforms that included privatizing state-owned companies, deregulating the economy and opening up the country’s natural resources for exploitation by multinational companies. In essence, the IMF-demanded structural reforms became the economic component of Plan Colombia.</i> always and forever. and the results are always the same, always. poverty and violence and death and human rights abuses and countries robbed of their resources. it is so naive of me, but i don't know how these people can live with themselves. what is the price of a soul? a conscience? i can't imagine such wealth. the IMF agreed to lend Colombia $2.7 billion on the condition that the government implement structural reforms that included privatizing state-owned companies, deregulating the economy and opening up the country’s natural resources for exploitation by multinational companies. In essence, the IMF-demanded structural reforms became the economic component of Plan Colombia.

always and forever. and the results are always the same, always. poverty and violence and death and human rights abuses and countries robbed of their resources. it is so naive of me, but i don’t know how these people can live with themselves. what is the price of a soul? a conscience? i can’t imagine such wealth.

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