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...solved some of the problems but outsourced others. We could happily forget about this as long as it was happening to weak, marginalized countries, but now China plays an active part in the world economy. We can't command China to give us cheap raw materials, cheap labour, and hope for the best. We will have to globalize solutions. Florian Bous, URDORF, SWITZERLAND...
Most residents of La Silsa hope Chávez is right. Like other poor Venezuelans, they're grateful for the poverty-reduction programs and medical clinics Chávez has lavished on barrios like theirs. The potable water, power lines, subsidized grocery stores, community councils that give average people more political say - they had none of that 20 years ago. Since Chávez's leftist revolution began in 1999, though, Venezuela's oil wealth has been redirected into populist spending programs that keep the poor on side and Chávez in power...
...Perhaps that's why he recently warned supporters who have benefited from the oil boom that "this isn't a revolution of Hummers." As for the soaring crime rate, Chávez says that a major overhaul of the police and judiciary is coming. He'll have to hope that's enough to eke out a victory in a few days' time. "We will recognize the result, as we always have, whatever it is," he said last week. And if it doesn't go his way, he may just keep trying until it does...
...watching the swearing-in of our 44th President, I felt as though eight years of oppression had been lifted off my shoulders. Over the past seven years, I have lost my pension, have taken two pay cuts and every year pay more for health insurance. Please, let there be hope. Deborah Schlegel, Washington, Iowa...
Some people criticize Obama for being a celebrity politician, but nothing has excited me this much since I was 11 years old and the Spice Girls came to town. And I have to say, that gives me hope...