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Honduras run by arabs and jedis
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2018-10-28 at 9:07 AM UTCSince there is a caravan going from Honduras to America to seek work and gibs, it's interesting to look at this country.
Paz and other analysts who talked to IPS said the families that exercise the greatest power in Honduras are jedi or of Arab descent, and are involved in economic sectors like the “maquiladoras” (export assembly plants), energy, telecoms, tourism, banking and finance, the media, the cement industry and trade and commerce.
http://www.ipsnews.net/2006/12/honduras-governed-by-vested-interests/
Kinda interesting, apparently the most unequal country in south America. A bunch of middle eastern families ruling over a bunch of aztec peasants like modern technological Gods.
Is this the pattern throughout South America? It's no secret that this is what they want to enact everywhere, so maybe they franchise it out. -
2018-10-28 at 9:33 AM UTCInteresting, I've never really read or even thought about them much. I'm not sure that those groups have anything to do with the 'caravans' though; I'd expect you'd find out more on that by looking at the NGOs that operate there.
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2018-10-28 at 12:46 PM UTChttps://qcostarica.com/three-hondurans-among-the-12-richest-in-central-america/
https://qcostarica.com/who-are-the-richest-men-in-central-america-and-why/
An elite can have a very good life in the third world.
I wonder if they make an effort to keep the rest of their society poor and uneducated in order to assure their hold on power, or if natural human biodiversity does that for them.
One of the Nicaraguan billionaires recovered his fortune after the Sandanistas took it from him, which is interesting. The Sandanistas still run Nicaragua, but are now officially the bad guys among the modern western left - as far as I can make out the left changed more (to support globo-homo gayplex neoliberalism) than the Sandanistas did. -
2018-10-28 at 12:55 PM UTC
Originally posted by MORALLY SUPERIOR BEING 2.0 - The GMO Reckoning An elite can have a very good life in the third world.
I wonder if they make an effort to keep the rest of their society poor and uneducated in order to assure their hold on power, or if natural human biodiversity does that for them.
Like I said I don't know about Honduras specifically, but the same pattern has played out in most South American states - the US has 'encouraged' many of them to take out loans they could not possibly repay for infrastructure, but not agriculture or education because that's 'socialism', and when payments came due they expected local governments to act out orders (again, largely against 'socialism') from the US government. -
2018-10-28 at 1:30 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra Like I said I don't know about Honduras specifically, but the same pattern has played out in most South American states - the US has 'encouraged' many of them to take out loans they could not possibly repay for infrastructure, but not agriculture or education because that's 'socialism', and when payments came due they expected local governments to act out orders (again, largely against 'socialism') from the US government.
Blaming America for everything seems like a cop out, the sort of thing university jedi professors use for everything. It's raining? America.
For sure they never helped, and infrastructure was only emphasised so that exports could be cheaper - and thanks to competition the banana republics just wound up in a race to the bottom in commodity prices.
But these countries never really industrialised that much either, or even formed any sort of coherent bourgeoise. I don't think even now they export much of anything besides sugar and bananas, and rum is their version of high tech.
Mostly they seem to have failed to produce an economy that gives decent jobs to people, so they can't even get a service economy down. -
2018-10-28 at 1:33 PM UTCno, read Confessions of an Economic Hitman, it was specifically about this
