The caring revolution part I

December 7, 2005

So next week’s meeting of the World Trade Organization in Hong Kong
poses a real problem for a Government that has little faith in free
trade. But no matter, the caring revolution will send at last count 106
delegates to the meeting, of which maybe three or four according to my
sources actually speak English. While at the plenary sessions there
will be translations, the technical sessions are in English and that is
where the real work and progress is made in negotiations. Contrast this
delegation with the US one, composed of no more than three dozen
diplomats, experts in the subject. I must speak well of the Minister
though, the original delegation topped 130, which he has been relentlessly trimming to the current level..

Thus, the caring “boliborgeois”, go around the world as tourists in
their role as the new oligarchs, while the poor are still where they
were seven years ago.

This entry was posted on December 7, 2005 at 10:36 pm and is filed under Venezuela.

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