Insecurity: Building the disease to sell the remedy
Urban violence is a direct daughter - and beloved-of social exclusion, loss of horizons and social goals for individuals and anomie that capitalism produces freed their own (wild) logic. 20 years of free market economy and destruction of the welfare state have transformed our large cities in a real "concrete jungles" much more violent than that beautiful black police filmed by John Huston in the 50s. Impersonating the democratic state regulation of corporations and large private companies with the disappearance of politics as a field of debate and decision of the "res publica" and its replacement by large clusters of "communication" governing the public are an explosive combination that leaves the nation at the mercy of the government of select minority who hold economic power and media, transforming our democracies into a decorated cardboard mask after which the ins and outs of the powerful and their interests. Theming systematic mass media on urban insecurity and crime goes beyond the sensationalism and the quest for higher ratings. We are entering a historical period in which the very existence of capitalism is being tested: its ability to produce wealth and socialize the majority of the population, to sustain its legitimacy as a system. The discourse on public security crisis aims to exploit the notions of "common sense" or "simplistic thinking" of many social groups, which go beyond the middle classes. These individuals and groups whose psychology was dislocated by successive economic and social crisis are vulnerable to demagogic propaganda of the "iron fist" and the "discourse of order" in general. It is a symbolic compensation offered by the right, in exchange for economic security that the system can not provide. By the way, serves to channel aggression into "scapegoats" and divert it from its true purpose: those that led the nation into a bleak wrapped in flags of neoliberalism.
Hillary Clinton just say no. In his recent visit to that country recognized - in part, its liability should be the United States in the security crisis that has led the fight in the Mexican state against the drug cartels.
The much touted "war" that the security forces and army employers are losing against drug trafficking and private armies, funded through the laundering of money made through the international financial system "legal" and weapons "legal" to buy freely across the Rio Grande, in the very States together.
This mea culpa official Washington - with appreciation including being the main consumer market - comes with the usual military aid, which produced such disastrous results in Colombia. If one can speak of a success of the "war on drugs" held in that country South America, is that drove the business - without removing it - to Central America and Mexico.
And is that globalization is at the root of the problem. Since the weakening of political systems and state regulation of the economy resulted in an increase in poverty, and strengthening the criminal organizations. Both feed off each other. Customers and employees of the Mafia and drug cartels are recruited in large numbers among the poor. States unable to secure employment, education and health, along with security forces and corrupt political systems and accomplices did the rest.
Mexico is a very didactic example of the effects on a relatively developed economy produces the complete deregulation and unrestricted opening to foreign capital, in parallel with the disintegration of traditional social and political representation - without emerge that replace-new, making it worse by elites whose sights are set exclusively in their private businesses. Not daring to ask to be even a "commonwealth" is subordinate to the northern neighbor uncritically.
will not millions of U.S. dollars in logistics and supply weapons that will defeat the drug cartels, but a total and profound renewal of political and social structures of the Mexican state.
China's suggestion of using Special Drawing Rights IMF as an international currency to replace the dollar reflects something more than the nervousness of the country's largest holder of U.S. Treasury Bonds. Part of the Chinese strategy of positioning function to become the "primus inter pares" of an international system in the process of reorganization. Looked into perspective, China's refusal to endorse the proposals made in the latest Doha Round of World Trade Organization is in line with the finding by Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People's Bank of China to the dollar. That country next to India caused the failure of the meeting when delivered against regulations that would force them to check out your industry, but also agriculture. Recall that the crisis was in its infancy, but its "formal outbreak" occurred in mid-September 2008. is that globalization has transformed the U.S. and Europe in countries, "producer services" while manufacturing industries flowed to the overcrowded "emerging nations", providing dirt cheap labor to the world market. The result is that U.S. multinationals, European and Japanese industrial development fostered Asian, particularly Chinese, invigorating their economies. It also made them particularly dependent on the world market. But with one small detail: the two countries account for 40% of the world's population with high unmet consumer needs. China can turn to its domestic market to compensate, at least in part, the decline in foreign purchases. In short, the G-7 countries need more - in relative terms - from Russia, China, India and Brazil, which they of the first. And while the biggest capitalist crisis since 1929 will "leave the clothes lines," we must not lose sight of what is at stake here is the international hegemony. World War I broke out the bidding inter-between the major powers of the globe, all capitalists. Its main consequence was the Russian Revolution and the birth of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The origin of the Second World War can be found in the bitterness of defeat in World War I, but mainly in the devastating economic, social and political of the Crash of '29. Nazifacista Axis defeat in 1945 opened a period of global economic growth and progress of the progressive forces of history as mankind had never met. This was his agony began with the crisis of oil prices in 1973, died at beginning of the counter "Conservative Revolution" of Thatcher and Reagan in 1979 and had his funeral with the implosion of the Soviet Union in 1989. The current capitalist crisis is "cooking" a spin history in power relations between nations but also between social classes within each state and internationally. The "fight back" seems to be between USA and China. But we must also see how they will react the hundreds of millions affected by the crisis in every corner of the planet.
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what extent economic instability in Eastern Europe threatens the cohesion of the EU?
The 27 EU member states met on 1 March in Brussels to outline an action plan to save the sinking of the countries that embraced free market capitalism after the fall of the wall Berlin in 1989.
The outlook is grim, with traces of disaster could deal the final blow to the continent's financial system, as major banks have hundreds of millions, in those "emerging" nations such as Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, Ukraine, Romania , Bulgaria and Hungary.
The global economic crisis severely beat these countries: vertical drop in exports, capital flight, so access to external financing, falling consumption, brutal devaluation. Many of its inhabitants are indebted to "hard currency", while watching their income evaporate before liquefaction of their local currencies.
Just was Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány, who sought, unsuccessfully, 228,000 million as loans to save the economies of the newer members of the EU. Not incidentally, was the premier of Hungary, since that country has an external debt equivalent to 100% of its GDP. It is no accident that the veto of a massive turnout has departed from German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Germany is the most powerful member, and who else should provide this assistance. On the other hand, Germany is the most rigid advocate of economic orthodoxy, limits on public deficits and high interest rates.
Aged aspirations - and resentment - nurture divisions between the countries "old" and "new" in the Union. Eastern Europe largely embraced the cause of the United States during the '90s to the present, in a pendulum motion to move away from Russian rule. They were always seen by Germany and France as the "fifth column" in the mainland U.S.. On the other hand, the great capitals of Western Europe benefited from the massive privatizations and highly skilled workforce - and very cheap - which resulted in economic growth and bulging results in the balance sheets of large banks and Western European companies.
Today the United States "can hardly be with his soul." The budget vote which Obama claims to Congress calls for the largest deficit in history, and the economic factor is not a minor variable in the decision to withdraw troops from Iraq. The policy of detente with Russia after the proposal to reduce nuclear arsenals will interact in the same direction. U.S. protection and tutelage over eastern Europe is no longer what it was. Still, Russia already has enough to save its economy from the collapse of oil prices to think of any hegemonic adventure for those dollars.
Specifically, the former German aspirations of the region, dating from the time of Frederick the Great of Prussia - more than 200 years ... - are limited by economic factors. Also by the need to meet the demands of his home front, will not immune from the crisis.
But will the European Union survive the incipient revival of nationalism, with its share of xenophobia, which manifest themselves for years in virulent form by far-right parties that have a good number of voters in countries like Austria and France . And that is expressed in a more attenuated by right-wing populist leaders like Berlusconi and Sarkozy. Also ultra-nationalist reaction that can occur in countries that embraced the creed of libremercado and Europeanism as the solution to all ills, and to which the great powers now abandoned to their fate in the stormy sea of \u200b\u200bthe world capitalist crisis.