Reflections by comrade Fidel
THE G20, THE G21 AND THE
G192
As
if there were not enough reasons to go mad, the proliferation of acronyms
related to the crisis is such that one can hardly understand them. The first
was the G20, a selected group meeting in
Now,
G192 is the way that Leonel Fernandez, President of
the
George
Soros, an immensely rich magnate of Hungarian descent
and an American citizen, was one of the attending personalities.
One would have to be a chess player to
disentangle the arguments of so diverse national and business interests as are
represented in the G20 and the G21.
The
truth of the matter is that if a Third World country signed free trade
agreements with eight or ten developed or emerging countries, --some of them
traditional producers of abundant and attractive low cost goods or
sophisticated industrial products, such as the United States, Canada, Japan,
South Korea, etc.-- the nascent industry of a developing country would have to
compete with the sophisticated products of the most developed countries’
industries or the hard working hands of their powerful partners, one of which
handles world finances wantonly. The only thing left to them would be to
produce inexpensive raw materials requiring large investments ultimately owned
by foreign companies fully protected from nationalizing whims. They would only
have their extended hands waiting for a pious development support and an
eternal debt to be repaid with their children’s sweat. Isn’t this what has been
happening until today?
That’s
why I don’t hesitate to show my solidarity with Chavez’s position as he said
that he disagreed with
Fidel Castro Ruz