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- From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
- Subject: How USA-Today Lies (3)
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- Most of the $129 million the United States sent in relief aid
- after the disaster was awarded as loans to home and business
- owners. [...]
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- ****** Oxfam America "Focus on: El Salvador" (1990 or 1991) ******
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- " A tiny country the size of Massachusetts, El Salvador has five
- million people but few resourdes to support them. A wealthy elite
- controls the military, governemnt, land, and industry. Just six
- families own as much farmleand as 300,000 peasants, much of it the
- country's best land. While the elite lives luxuriously, the majority
- of the people are impoverished: One in four children is malnourished,
- and *half* the population has no access to safe drinking water or
- toilets. With a standard of living that has actually *declined* since
- the early 1980s, most poeple do not have land to farm, and
- underemployhment and unemploeyment hover near 50 percent.
-
- [My emphasis, on these unmentioned part about the "Cold War Victory"
- --HB]
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- Much aid to El Salvador is also diverted, and programs are notorious
- for waste and corruption, including the resale of U.S. government
- relief food on the black market by Salvadoran officials. The
- devastating 1986 earthquake left about one-fifth of the capital of San
- Salvador without shelter.
-
- [On Washington's "humanitarian priorities":]
-
- Most of the $129 million the United States sent in relief aid after
- the disaster was awarded as LOANS TO HOME AND BUSINESS OWNERS. But the
- majority of people left home-less were squatters, refugees, and
- renters, who were ineligible for these loans."[my emphasis --HB]
-
- "According to a 1987 report by the Institute for Food and Development
- Policy, AID [the U.S. Agency for International Development] admits
- that ...that goal of the agrarian reform was to `pacify rather than
- empower' the rural poor"
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-
- Oxfam America 115 Broadway, Boston, MA 02116
- 617 482 1211
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- Some PeaceNet accounts:
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- oxfamcom@igc.org
- Martha Mhlanga, 26 West Street
- Boston MA USA 02111
- (617)482-1211
- (Oxfam Communications)
- Keys: hunger, famine relief, third world development
- oxfama@igc.org
- Karen Williams, 26 West St.
- Boston MA USA 02111-1206
- (617)482-1211
- (Oxfam America)
-