"Millennium Development Goals? Hope fades in a world increasingly unsupportive, in which the perpetrators gain
As much as it is intended to evoke the spirit of what it meant ten years ago Summit hosted by United Nations released the Millennium Development Goals commendable, it would be unfortunate, and even obscene, that now meets in New York do the same feeling of satisfaction and confidence expressed then. Far, far away, are met for those who have been expecting and hoping for over a decade. With an eye toward 2015, date for compliance, are very few, if any, who harbor the illusion that the end will be a fairer world in which hunger, extreme poverty , endemic diseases and the impact on the environment will be set at levels that lead us to consider that, in fact, we are moving towards a more cohesive world.
There is, however, encourage many reasons for this trend. If at times of economic prosperity, the achievements have been very limited (only have made progress in combating infant mortality and disease infeccionsas), it is rife with optimism when this campaign is faced in times of crisis and the weakening of the will to cooperate worldwide. official development assistance has dropped significantly - Spain has fallen by 800 million euros - as a result of restrictive policies against the debt by developed countries, the conquest of 0.7% of GDP has been delayed by those who presumed to move in that direction without reservation.
However, in my opinion, this is not the worst. The expectations are complicated in an international context where the cause of the crisis have come to be, ultimately, the beneficiaries of it. The firm position taken by the UN in this process declined to bar the strengthening of forums, groups and agreements that bypass international law completely covered the back of General Assembly or Organization World Trade Organization, where all. But in the G-8 in the G-20 in Davos and in games of the same ilk are not all or many fewer. Only a handful of countries and ranks first leaders to talk about anything but solidarity.
To our knowledge, none of them, lacking the legitimacy of the UN have emerged as sensitive in the commitment ten years ago, and even some of his good intentions have been dead letter. Was discussed with special emphasis rebuild the capitalist system, to curb tax havens, to monitor speculative transactions to show, in short, who had learned the lesson that led to disaster in the summer of 2007. Had to correct the triggers of the crisis and strengthen the role of the public. What have been such intentions? Has anyone heard of new discipline and supervision? What happened to the malpractice money havens black? It seems that the lead is in the hands and the States represented at the UN, but the ability to maneuver who, paradoxically, led to the mess that has brought us where we are.
Surprised, read that Mr. Rodriguez Zapatero will star in "economic offensive" in New York. It will not only General Assembly , as appropriate, but in a meeting with the cream of world finance. Nothing less than an encounter with the thirteen banks and investment funds that integrate the world's largest by volume of funds they manage. I have seen the relationship and there is nobody in the business world with productive vocation, creating wealth and jobs, but financial capitalism pure and simple. Investment intermediaries are called. There are, among others, the CEOs of Citigroup, Prudential, Blackrock, Paulson & Co., Bridgewater Associates, Goldman Sachs, MetLife, the chairman of Soros and the director of public debt markets Tiia Cref. Look at the websites of these institutions and know what is good.
perhaps you will come to the same conclusion as I: governments pay homage to those who not long ago was considered responsible for the crack that affects us, while today, on the other hand, victorious appear as references to to consult. Is tremendous, that, taking advantage of the Summit which should reflect self-critically on what has been done in these ten years with unmet goals, attention is polarized around what they do or intend to make the principal architects of the problems facing the world, no longer a vision painful what is happening. Well I doubt or recrimination has stern warnings to redirect on behaviors known.
It's just, I dare to venture, a manifestation of how in these times of rejection of the different emergency and xenophobia that rule the world with the support of their people cede sovereignty to those who understand the injustice and inequality in the world are inevitable.
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