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Prensa Latina -World Bank President not welcomed in Guatemala

Posted by tracy on April 29th, 2006

Wolfowitz telling Guatemala and Mexico what their problem is??? Guatemalan peasant and environmental organizations plan demontrations to reject the visit of World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz on April 28. While Juan Tema visits Canada to tell Canadians that his community of Sipakapa does not want Canadian/American gold mining companies to proceed with exploitation, Wolfowitz visits Guatemala to promote mining exploitation of American and Canadian mining companies. As stated in the link: “Wolfowitz, a neoconservative, has been booed in all his recent public appearances. One of the main arguments against him is related with his role in the military strategy that led to the US invasion to Iraq. The president of the World Bank is a former US official, and one of the closest associates of republican president George W. Bush. Despite the rejection sparked by his visits, Wolfowitz does not seem to learn: yesterday during the most recent conference he gave in Mexico he said that the country’s main problems: migration, violence and unemployment, are not the responsibility of the international agencies. He said that the Mexican crisis “is more related with investment and competitiveness than with the recommendations of the Washington Consensus, and of the multilateral agencies”.”

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