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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: marcos who wrote (6761)	5/31/2000 6:58:00 PM
From: X Y Zebra	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

... there are changes, slowly, slowly ... among average people ... which is where all real change comes from ... but man, it is slow ... so many reluctant to accept the responsibilities that go hand in hand with the rights The pressing needs of a growing population gives a more intense meaning to saying... "Time is of the essence". Yes, slowly the population is becoming more aware of those responsibilities, but as you say, not fast enough. The population growth will overcome such efforts, unless something radical takes place. Here is where Argentina may have a better chance, although I am not fully convinced of it yet. Proof, they say, is in the pudding. Imo the key is population growth control, then education. Real capitalism is not (and has not been), really practiced in Lat Am, as you and Steve have indicated, is more like Feudalism. I will also say that it is a unique system of Feudal-nepotism, with hints of colonialismo under the blessing of the Catholic church. Mexico, under the Salinas presidency stepped back over a hundred years in time by recognizing the church... What "Bomberito" (g) Juarez gained in separating church and state... I wonder what the "god, guts, and glory" extreme conservatives would have to say about this: In 1868 there were insurrections in central Mexico under the peasant leaders Plotino Rhodakanati and Julio L¢pez. The former claimed that Jesus Christ was "the divine socialist of humanity" and the latter advocated a socialist system "to destroy the present vicious state of exploitation."* So Ju rez, whose enemy had long been the Christian right, now faced a challenge from the Christian left. Though liberal and anticlerical, Ju rez had never sympathized with socialism. So he had no compunction about sending federal troops against the rebels. mexconnect.com Ah ! Flags and borders, how convenient they are, when they are used to assist in one's own pet views. Reality be damned.