Ronnie James Dio Rocks Buenos Aires!

Well factually, it's a picture of a recent protest at the fate of the Argentine economy -- and the United States' role in it. Not a pretty story.

But then, it seems that the whole of the South American continent is on the verge of exploding. From Argentina to Bolivia to Brasil to Venezuela to Colombia, the outrage at the carnage wrought by the so-called "neo-liberal" development model propounded by the IMF and World Bank is palpable, and growing.

Time was, back in the halcyon days of the Clinton/Lewinsky Administration, your humble narrator was making known his opinion to all who would listen (i.e., nobody) that of the two great evil institutions in the world -- the IMF and the Pentagon -- the IMF probably caused the most harm to the World's population.

May no longer be the case. But it's still chugging along, starkly outlining the ugliness and barbarity of U.S. imperialism for all to see. The "contradictions" inherent in forcing people to live in the deepest wells of poverty aren't going to go away -- unless, maybe, the Bush Administration wipes the entire continent off the map, as it can't wait to do with Iraq.

Posted by Eddie Tews at February 26, 2003 02:16 PM