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RWAMAGANA,Rwanda--The allegedly corrupt past of former Ecuadorian President Jamil Mahuad's, a current IOP fellow and Kennedy school alum, reminded me of another piece of modern Harvard lore. The legend goes like this: There was once a Guatemalan military officer studying at the Kennedy school who received not one but two documents on Commencement Day--his diploma and a subpoena to answer to charges of human rights violations...
...from the shore to pick them up. Finally five boats manned by Taiwanese gangsters ferried them to land. The Fujianese trudged through fields for several hours before they reached a road where vans awaited them. The next night the Taiwanese boats went out again, but this time the Guatemalan police were waiting at the landing site. Chen thinks peasants who saw the first group tipped off the law. Most of the second batch of Fujianese were arrested as soon as they reached shore, but one boat capsized in the choppy water. Chen says a dozen people drowned...
Chen and about 100 others were taken to the house of a Taiwanese who lived with his Guatemalan wife on the outskirts of Guatemala City. "He was a big boss. His house was like a mansion, and there were 100 servants." Chen quickly discovered that local peasants had "much worse lives" than farmers in China. He and his fellow illegals were not fleeing desperate poverty. Their coastal province is relatively well off for China: Fujian gets investment from Taiwan, just across the strait, and the land is fertile enough to feed everyone. But Fujianese have a centuries-old tradition...
...house of the Taiwanese, Chen and the others were told to keep out of sight. The Guatemalan police were searching for them, so they spent a month holed up inside, waiting to resume their journey. They were not allowed to call home. For the snakeheads, who get paid only on arrival, the trip had now gone badly wrong. A dozen of their human cargo were dead, 38 others arrested, and the U.S. immigration authorities had been alerted...
...just a push for market share. Omidyar and his colleagues are still driven by the company's original goal of creating a global market where everyone competes on an equal footing. One pet project is an effort to bring a Guatemalan village into the global economy by hooking it up to eBay. Consumers in the developed world could buy local handcrafts at lower prices, and eliminating layers of middlemen would allow villagers to keep more of the purchase price for themselves...