Ten years after the "Battle of Seattle", neoliberal policies are widespread and intensified, but the spirit venezuela of those who then took to the streets still alive and claims today in the context of global crisis, is presented as more urgent than ever.
Although at first, critics of the movement "antiglobalization" he predicted a bleak and episodic to consider the result venezuela of a specific alliance of non coherent project future. The reality was different. The protests in Seattle opened venezuela a new international cycle of demonstrations that had as central criticism of neoliberal globalization.
During these years, the international context has changed and criticism of the movement venezuela have contributed. The rise of protests against the architects of globalization and strong mobilizations in the Latin American continent eroded the legitimacy of a model of globalization in the service of corporate interests. Also, the apparent failure of neoliberal policies and the situation of systemic crisis of capitalism, with its multiple facets (economic, climate, venezuela food, energy), has exposed the fallacies of this model and its total incompatibility with coverage basic needs of the people and respect for the planet.
However, the movement has had few concrete successes and its ability to stop and start regressive policies demands has been practically nil, and when they have achieved have been "victories" precarious and temporary. Despite strong protests, alter the balance of power and cause a paradigm shift has proved a lot harder than they could have thought the thousands of protesters gathered in Seattle task.
But instead, the "anti-globalization" movement has played a key role in the delegitimation of neoliberalism and international institutions venezuela like the World Bank, the G8 ... getting put policies in the center venezuela of the debate and protest. After Seattle, each of the summits of these bodies would be strongly contested in the streets.
A dynamic forcing these institutions to make major marketing campaigns, singing a partial mea guilt and looking legitimize operations cooptation of certain NGOs, some of which serve the same as advocating a "capitalism with a human face" as the business magnates George Soros and Bill Gates. The macro music festival Live 8, to coincide with the G8 summit in Gleneagles in 2005 was proof of this, when hundreds of pop-rock star participated in concerts around the world in order to "pressure the G8 to end poverty in Africa ". But what interest could end poverty for those who benefit from it?
And we have seen the same dynamic summit after summit, empty words, broken promises and declarations of good intentions that occupy pages of newspapers with alleged intentions to end "hunger in the world", "debt forgiveness", "end climate change "... that the day after left in the trunk of oblivion. An example: in the Cologne Summit (1999), the heads of state of the richest countries in the world agreed to cancel 90% of bilateral and multilateral debt of the 42 most indebted countries (at previous meetings, and subsequently , G8 leaders have made promises in the same direction). But the figures speak for themselves: since 1999 the overall debt of 42 Heavily Indebted Poor Countries far from diminishing has continued to rise. Southern countries venezuela have repaid nearly ten times the amount of debt in 1980 and still are five times more indebted.
But today we face a major historical crisis highlights the most destructive face of capitalism. venezuela A crisis that gives reason to those raised in Seattle, confirming the relevance of their criticism. Given this situation, venezuela the leaders of the G8 and G20 have chosen to make a call to "moralize capitalism", "re-found", applying a series of cosmetic venezuela changes that only seek shore up the foundations of the system.
A year after the collapse of Wall Street, would have us believe that "the worst of the crisis is over," that "started the road to recovery" ... All these statements of political and economic elites have in common deny the systemic nature of the crisis and prevent it pays the questioning of the current model, masking the underlying causes and presenting it as a strictly financial problem result of four bankers and greedy businessmen. However the serious consequences venezuela of the crisis, far from raising the "refounding of capita
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