All eyes on Africa

We mustn't proportionate trade to improved standard of living for the common person. #Corruption#

Foreign aid doesn't work. Tell us about it. In Latin America we know that the more foreign aid come, the poorer people get. The days of the "Alliance for progress" is still remembered by many in this part of the world. If the countries and the people itself don't have the will and the courage to stand up by themselves, hardly any help will do.

Pinguin is right. The one thing people in the u,s. might not know is that really the normal "poor" to middle class do NOT want foregin aid. They do not want the IMF (FMI for us) and there are wild protests and street graffiti. I remember when brasil "privatized", when the whole world was talking how oh, brasil is going to open up to the globalization! They will come under u.s. style markets and coorporations and big business to make profits. I knew what that meant: a big sh** to be tAken on the heads of the poor. The first thing the government sold off it's water/electric/phone and many people lost their jobs. The phones which had been cheap before and good  sound quality overnight became a rubbish of dropped calls, clicking noises and echos thanks to the consortium of french etc., who bought in and had no standards for brasilians service. The electric prices went up, gas went up I mean propane, everything became worse. "Globalization" was a joke on us. And everyone is saying oh congratulations brasil for your ethanol production, yes but they don't realize it is produced by the slave labor of poor brasilians, majority african descent, who are held as slaves on sugar cane camps in the  middle of nowhere, in debt to the store and patron, living in slave quarters that were standing 2oo years ago. Progress? Africa is no different...as long as man has greed in the heart there are certain places where the populace cannot and will never have quality of life.