Millennium Challenge account projects provide basis for propaganda
The online newspaper El Faro has reported that there is a split in the executive board which oversees the projects funded by dollars from the US Millennium Challenge Account. The division arises from the concern of certain members of the council that president Tony Saca is using announcement of various projects of the Millennium fund for propaganda purposes. These dissenting members are the representatives of the NGOs and the private sector who sit on the board. The governmental members who are on the board continue to support Saca.
Two comments:
1. No one should be surprised.
2. The Salvadoran people have seen such self-promotion by the current government often enough that they recognize it for what it is.
Two comments:
1. No one should be surprised.
2. The Salvadoran people have seen such self-promotion by the current government often enough that they recognize it for what it is.
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propaganda or not, people believe things and vote.
as USA tax dollars this is a serious issue
believe me, they will get e mails and calls from me
and hope CESTA and SHARE also pick up on this
as far as who believes this MM ?? more now thanks to Tim's blog,
corruption abounds especially in USA the worst hypocrites of all time
please list which folks and NGO's are asking the questions
Saca is as is Uribe, still bush's narco buddies,
i also heard how much dope is involved at Comalapa with all the so called US personell stationed there
hearing from the locals that work and translate there
legalize it all
HEMP is the solution for american farmers, the only hope
BACH and Vote Hemp websites for info
it would be the best crop grown ever in ES
hopefully Funes looks at this and complies
and biomass, bio-diesel,fiber,cloth, and paper for ES becomes a norm
well said
most who say such as this[homophobic] are gay themselves or just very ignorant
these type of remarks
show's one's education, compassion and schooling
This ties in pretty neatly with the earlier post about the UCA polls.
"democracy" is really, at best, of relative value. while the powers that be have the ability to create and manipulate public opinion -the millions spent in PR and what not; not just that, the control of the wider media, the educational system, etc.- while this remains true, democracy will remain a whim of the economically or politically powerful.
while there would be a need to address UCA's credibility, there is certainly a widespread dissatisfaction with the government, and a high likelihood of the opposition winning the presidential election -this, truth be told, might prove not to be such a big change in things. at this point in time they are just appendages in the general "democratic" clockwork of things.
i really see no reason why the economic power in el salvador should be so worried about a change in government. worst case scenario, they will probably just be a different set of neoliberal policy-makers, by virtue of forced or voluntary compliance. (the "forced" compliance might be anything from the fear of meltdown due to significant changes in the system or good-old-fashiong selling out).
The Saca administration has been the exact opposite of neoliberal.
It has created TWO fullblown new ministries, ONE new "tribunal", at least FOUR new "institutions," expanded the Foreign Relations bureaucracy as if we are the new UN, and generall expanded the interventionist powers of the government-owned companies, not to mention the price controls, subsidies, and endless new regulations it has issued.
If these Socialist practices are considered "neoliberal" around here, I'd hate to see what some people expect a truly lefty government to impose.
Yet back to the point: ARENA markets itself as whatever it wants to keep in power and ransacking El Salvador's resources.