By Raúl Zibechi. The difficulties regional integration faces come from distortions caused by the free market--asymmetries, inequalities, and contradictions--that are virtually insurmountable. Free trade policies prevent regional integration that would benefit Latin America and permit the implementation of policies to overcome poverty and the systematic degradation of the continent’s quality of life and environment. Instead, these policies generate severe regional inequalities--both between countries and within them--and polarization between islands of strong growth with cutting-edge technology and pockets of poverty and environmental plunder. (IRC)
Friday, December 9, 2005
The free market vs regional integration
By Raúl Zibechi. The difficulties regional integration faces come from distortions caused by the free market--asymmetries, inequalities, and contradictions--that are virtually insurmountable. Free trade policies prevent regional integration that would benefit Latin America and permit the implementation of policies to overcome poverty and the systematic degradation of the continent’s quality of life and environment. Instead, these policies generate severe regional inequalities--both between countries and within them--and polarization between islands of strong growth with cutting-edge technology and pockets of poverty and environmental plunder. (IRC)
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