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The Cost of Reform:
a look at the IMF's role in the Dominican Republic and
the collusion of big business and government
When a few BANINTER bankers embezzled US$2.2 billion
last year,
the Mejía administration decided not to prosecute.
Instead,
it covered the loss itself. (That is, Mejía decided to
put the
burden on the taxpayers.)
Hope Grows With the Birth of GECCO:
community organizing through food co-ops and traditional medicine workshops
"The best part of all of this is that nobody has to convince me
that this is worth it. You see right away when you look at your
grocery bill or when you learn something you didn't know before."
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Resistance to Neoliberalism: Two Latin American Cases
In Latin America there are two countries demonstrating
a sustained resistance to international economic pressures:
Cuba, which has spent more than 40 years dealing with the
US trade embargo; and Venezuela, which insists on
investing public funds in social services even after
surviving a coup in 2002.
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