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...trickle-down philosophy it employs has done little, if anything, to rectify one of the most skewed income distributions in the world. Last June, at a Kennedy School forum, Mexico's Ambassador to the United Nations, Oscar Gonzales, acknowledged that income distribution in Mexico--where the top 30 per cent of the society enjoys 70 per cent of the income--is less equitable than in El Salvador. And economic data show that the disparity in Mexico has actually worsened during the "development" process. Unemployment estimates range as high as 50 per cent, while the cruel perversity of the existing system...
...PEMEX, which can unilaterally expropriate their land. They say that the sulfur in the air corrodes the tin roofs of their shacks, and that their cows have died from drinking contaminated water. The land has become less fertile, with crop yields declining by as much as 30 per cent...
...ruling Nationalist Party contains no derogatory references to Blacks. But little things slip out. An English-speaking cab driver, who assured his passenger that he supported the reform-minded Progressive Federal Party, finished a lengthy discourse on poor Afrikaners (of predominantly Dutch stock, Afrikaners make up 65 per cent of the white population) by saying, "Why, some of these Afrikaners are barely a step above the niggers...
...Soweto is not fit for humans," declares Fanyana Mazibuko, a banned former Soweto school teacher. It is a dismal place. The government-operated tourist bus drives past rows of uniform dirty gray row houses. Outhouses, made out of strips of corrugated metal, squat behind most of them: 80 per cent of Soweto's homes lack electricity and running water. Barbed wire surrounds a school and many of the homes...
...remain in white South Africa, he or she faces imprisonment or deportation to one of the so-called homelands, regions comprising the poorest and most overcrowded land in South Africa. These homelands, some which have been granted nominal independence, offer few jobs and make up only 13 per cent of South Africa's land area. But they are the official residences for all of South Africa's Blacks...