Not similar ... almost all '3rd World' governments are controlled by corrupt politicians, so if they unite, the result is a much larger corrupt group. Workers need to unite to achieve political power then enact laws to protect their rights .... perhaps, a pipe dream.
Almost all 3rd world countries are controlled by pro-Western corrupt politicians and pro-Western business elites. The fact that most are pro-Western should be no surprise since they were aided in attaining their influence and power of most 3rd World countries by the Western countries they support.
It's another example of NOT biting the hand that made it possible for you to feed yourself.
The Third World exist because the First World exist, its not the other way around. Anyone who doubts this, simply put more attention to the "Made in XYZ" on the labels of everything you buy in your comfy first world gated community... I mean country.
The XYZ part rarely is a First World country and Second World countries don't exist anymore.
The omnipresent "Made in [insert a Third World country]" label didn't come into existance before the First World came into existance. Such label exist because the First World exists and its existance is why the Third World exist as well.
The two are not mutually exclusive, eventhough First World politicians love to play with that idea with their citizens -- always pointing full fault at the Third World themselves for their problems, while ignoring the influence and direct maneuvering First World countries have been involved in the creation of the Third World as we know it today.
And if that is not enough to convince, right now global capital flows are favoring rich First World countries. What does that mean? More money is flowing from the poor countries of the world to the rich one's, even when you take into account aid from rich countries to the poorer countries (with much of that being military and corporate aid).
What does that mean?
In a nutshell, rich countries have the wealth they create within their borders and a huge chunk of the wealth created in the Third World as well.
Now, take this grandiose global encompasing real life scenerio and apply it at the Dominican national level and you will see the exact same thing. In fact, the Dominican Republic is nothing more than a microcosm of what is occuring on the globe as a whole.
And if you think local elites truly control Third World countries, then I suggest you put more attention to what happens when the IMF team goes to the DR to "revise" its progress.
Without fail, a few days after the IMF teams leaves the Dominican Republic the government annouces budget cuts and tax hikes. At one point Leonel blurted out what he was not suppose to say when he made it public that the IMF's "suggestion" that subsidies on cooking oil should be removed were going to affect the Dominican population to a degree that would be immoral and because of that he refused to eliminate them.
The IMF team was first reluctant to accept such action from Leonel until it was made public back in November of last year through the media. After that occured, the IMF team made an exception to the rule and allowed the subsidies to remain in place.
Of course, other things took a hit as a consequence.
Go ahead, do a little research. Washington has greater control over than Dominican Republic than does Santo Domingo.
-NALs
