Reply #12: US and EU seen through the eyes of the third world [View All]

An interesting editorial from allafrica.com:

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...There's need for all Third World countries to support Cuba when the United Nations discusses the question of lifting the economic blockade on it next month.

This is surely not the time for begging from the developed countries or for submission, defeatism or internecine divisions. This is time to rescue our fighting spirit, our unity and cohesion in defending our demands for a more just, fair and humane world.

Fifty three years ago we were promised that one day there would not be a gap between developed and underdeveloped countries. We were promised bread and justice; but today we have less and less bread and more injustice.

The world can be globalised under the rule of neoliberalism, but it is impossible to rule over billions of people who are hungry for bread and justice.

The current world economic order works for 20 per cent of the population but it leaves out, demeans and degrades the remaining 80 per cent. We simply cannot accept to continue in this century as the backward, poor and exploited rearguard; the victim of racism and xenophobia, prevented from accessing knowledge and suffering the alienation of our cultures due to the foreign consumer-oriented message globalised by the media.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200310060007.html