Sunday, February 27, 2011

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SAILING AGAINST POWER NEEDED. STATEMENT

Summary of introductory remarks "Raul Sendic, the Tupamaro" by JORGE ZABALZA

POWER AGAINST YOU SHOULD BROWSE

This last Sunday in November 1958 turned fifteen. That same day national elections were held that whites defeated the Reds, while in internal motto, right-wing coalition (Herrera and Nardone) beat Blanca Democratic Union, whose cast is highlighted by the leader ability to hide the most reactionary ideas. In our department doubled whites the red and the list headed rural blacksmith father doubled his rivals within the National Party. Therefore, my father was elected to the National Director of Government time, Senator and Mayor of Lavalleja. As "worked" like crazy during the whole campaign, was happier than a dog with two tails. It was the best birthday present, the feast was done in the streets of the city of Minas, surrounded by cheering voters, welcomed everyone.
On 1 March 59 was the change of rulers. Enthusiastic about the speech that was whipping the peasantry invaded the capital to assist in the eviction of the "communist veneer 15 "Luis Batlle Berres. A small crowd left unseen Allied Park. Castles Ataliva once told me that even neighboring Bernabé Rivera, his hometown, perhaps the most isolated country, came from far away by truck to toast the victory of the "botudos against galerudos." Meanwhile
Nardone, Juan José Gari, Faustino Harrison and my father met with U.S. Ambassador to cook the stew; result: A year later, the counter Azzini signed the first letter of intent with the Fund Uruguay money. So a teenager I learned that the leaders have the ability to distort reality and make that reality, twisted by demagoguery, then meat on people, even intellectuals of the stature of Claudio Williman Methol Ferré. Delight of those below the top business ... and long live democracy!
After 93 years of Colorado Party's monopoly had been peaceful rotation of the cast of government, no military riots and threatening speeches. At that Uruguay, 1959, the Executive Branch was chartered and minority representation, the budgetary initiative lay primarily in the parliament (parliamentary procedure), the influence of the evil totalitarian, the international communism was under control in Uruguay, where there was confidence in the staff of leaders of traditional parties, which is essential for the smooth functioning damper system.
He had set the autonomy of the university and the student co-government, power that enabled the FEUU Ernesto Che Guevara invited to speak at the auditorium in 1961. Perhaps impressed by these formal appearances, his speech invited us to take care of the democratic freedoms that prevailed in the Switzerland of America. The newspaper El Pais and magazines LIFE VISION and comparing our democracy commoner with the queen of all democracies, the United States. A democratic apotheosis.
A against the current climate, Raul Sendic wrote in the weekly "EL SOL" in 1958: "The regime that prevails in our country has a face and a mask. The mask is the appearance of freedom and democracy that only the rich experience and shown to the outside. " Raised under the shadow of the ideological wing of the owners of Uruguay, having read them, those words of Raul nonsense I have seemed incomprehensible that he refused to enjoy the spiritual welfare causes bourgeois democracy, my father qualified people to thought well of "children of leftists ultrismo Sorocabana Coffee."
However, Sendic reflections shod like a glove on the reality of many people: the dairy farm laborers beaten by the police to claim his, UTE workers who had come down the lever, the port and refrigerators that suffered police occupation of the Villa del Cerro, workers in rice, sugar beet and sugar cane ... possibly the vast majority of them had voted their employers, but union struggles "fuel the brain" and the employees knew very well the real face of democracy. When five years later took the white rulers first steps safety of workers arose within those many who accompanied Raul when he chose the gun as a tool of struggle. It was an ideological choice individual and collective, driven by the desire to place the horizon in front of the revolutionary social and political struggles. Option horizon that were paid with hundreds lives between 1966 and 1985, accounted lives in enforced disappearances, deaths in battle, murder in the streets, in the torture and prisons.
The barracks are still keeping their abominable secrets, these officials to chat openly in their casinos, but hide the judiciary and the public. While not know the truth about these crimes Uruguayan democracy will remain a lie. A "new official" education in the law of "omerta", learn to lie to the people and escape justice, to justify crimes against humanity as pragmatic necessities of war "subversive" believe integrating a higher caste, which guards the "high values \u200b\u200bthat made the country." To make matters worse his convictions are confirmed when the commander Rosales and the four generals of division are allowed to defend the general impunity Dalmao, imprisoned for terrorist state. The same double standard practiced in the Congo and Haiti, schools where they learn to control and repress their people as they talk about peace, to dehumanize guise of "humanitarian missions". In the current armed forces, bourgeois democracy is raising condor chicks to start in the eyes of birds tomorrow.
Who decides the amount of wages of workers, of all the private and public? The "economic team", with Fernando Lorenzo Pedro Buonomo head and number two, involved both in advising venture capitalists. With Tabaré Aguerre, rancher and "producer" rice. Ministers coming from the business, where they were educated by the rate of return and "good business", ie how to screw employees. Solidarity is a verse to coax Frente. Daily
out to explain, with audacity and impudence, to those who understand and who do not, that in the next five years will remain the same economic policies of the previous five years, therefore, in the period 2010 -2015: no redistribution of income or wealth! Not fulfill what was promised in the election campaign. Is explained in the hermetic language of their profession so that no one understands a lot and every thirty seconds, repeating the word magic "social policies", fetish to catch voters and console the poor who are on the canvas. The only way to redistribute material is taken so that the wage bill to grow much more than GDP growth, a policy that the "economic team" and the government behind it are not willing to take because they do not want to break with social class owner of Uruguay .. . that, indeed, are at the same time, the owners of this democracy.
Therefore, the inequality will be maintained the social divide will remain higher than before 2002. Each year the settlements continue to grow with the homeless who can not pay rent or fees, four out of ten teenagers will continue not to enter the labor market because they are literate enough, the interior ministers still amazed at the growth of robberies and trafficking in cocaine base ... also continue to increase the number of zero kilometers purchased by the owners of fields, one in a thousand Uruguayans, who watched as they enlarged the estate without having to work, simply because of increased land prices in recent seven years, more 30 billion dollars in total appropriated the estates in this way, equivalent to what the Uruguay produces per year. Enough to buy several democracies ....
The rich will become richer and the poor throw them a few bucks more for the taking as can be, to continue indulging his silence demobilized from the proper conduct of business in Uruguay. In between, the unionized workers, aware that the prices increase production and international demand are keen to take the time to rise and fight for a substantial improvement in income. Eventually his battles clarify the understanding and allow many to discover the real boundary, which separates Uruguay owners of employees, regardless of the party colors.
The U.S. ambassador, a certain "Mr. Nelson, here in Santa Catalina, a couple of blocks from home, as he placed the cornerstone of future training ground for the" peace missions ", said Uruguay and Empire share the concepts of freedom, democracy and human rights ... As no one came out refuting government or a single word, the question arises: is it true what this man says?, Is not there differences between U.S. democracy and this democracy to Uruguay XXI century?, " contain the same principles of freedom and humanity? Then, one can say that we are a disaster, we live a semblance of democratic life, just the heat a little class struggle, showing teeth and out to exercise power State, police and troops pouring into the streets, throwing them over which they have the audacity to claim back wages to achieve the promised redistribution of income.
More than half a century of "recent history" stretched to my old sixty-seven fifteen years, thanks to the simple fact of survival I have the privilege of knowing this new version of the apotheosis of democracy. New bottles, of course, but the same old wines as ever. Distrust of the democratic euphoria, I refuse to buy the beads that were sold before the Uruguay Vallista, I refuse to dawn bitten by the same snake that bit me fifty years ago as a teenager ruralista blacksmith.
democracy in Uruguay is cut by the barrack secret dungeons and falsified by the demagoguery of the leaders .... do not believe in this kind of democracy as alien to the dispossessed, as socially unjust, as protective of impunity. I feel I must say, the front, although most believe more in the congratulations of Hilary Clinton in the anti outbursts but ... Would not have had enough of both lines?, Do not you fall indigestible many frogs?

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Patrick Ewings For Sale



TO CHANGE Agroecology is AN OPTION OF SURVIVAL

For Ing Agr Fernando Queiroz Armand Ugón *

neoliberal globalization, trade liberalization policies of our economies and markets, the continued and growing structural adjustment, together with the landing of large agribusiness corporations, we have imposed their laws and rules that go through plunder nature, creating imbalances, generating disease and hunger, at the expense of multiplying your profits and hegemony in global commodity chains in an integrated manner, ie, control production raw materials, processing, marketing and consumption.
These are the reasons why we are facing an environmental catastrophe is characterized by accelerated deforestation, soil erosion, exacerbated growth of cities (for rural migration, among other causes) overexploitation of natural resources and increasing inequality.
can not transform the nature of goods and services forever, as required by this global model and unsustainable . The appropriation of natural resources to as a commodity, is only intended to increase the gain and profit, and it becomes increasingly resisted by the people.
sovereignty for survival
Food sovereignty does not only refer to the production of food to prevent starvation of the population, but also means ensuring that food is optimal for biological health, mental and spiritual human being. In this sense, it is necessary to promote a paradigm shift in the way food is produced, how it is distributed and exchanged, the way we consume and the manner in which the consumer relates to the production process.
If a country can not decide how their food production, then is far from having food sovereignty.
The advance of agricultural frontier driven by biofuels is an attack on food sovereignty in the South, as land for agricultural production is being used as growing to feed cars. The amount of grain needed to fill a tank of about 100 liters with ethanol once, enough to feed a person for a year. Biofuel production affects directly on consumers, increasing the cost of food.
Of all human activities, agriculture is applied to a larger area, which involves us in a growing conflict between the forms and styles of doing agriculture, satisfying basic needs and the sustainability of the natural environment.
More productivity and more poverty
control over our seeds by large multinationals such as Monsanto, Dupont , Syngenta, Bayer , Dow , BASF , is the first step toward loss of food sovereignty, due to changes in the logic of production.
"disaster capitalism that uses to generate new business leads and generate new disasters like these, then there will be new business. "
The farm is located in close interdependence with nature. The agricultural sector remains the main country's export engine. Over 85 percent of exports has this origin: meat, wool, dairy, grains, oilseeds, citrus, honey, wine, rice and timber. While everyone accepts this economic importance, yet few people realize that this sector is embedded in an ecological system . Our wealth as a country of agriculture and tourism are based on the nature. This framework identifies constraints to production and tourism.
In our country there is evidence that although increasing productivity, it was a strong land degradation, water problems (organic pollution by nitrates, for availability) indiscriminate application of pesticides and growing.
The alleged increase in productivity of modern technology packages are achieved from large additional inputs of energy and matter. Thus, each extra kilogram obtained from the soil requires proportionally more and more contributions, where the efficiency of the process, instead of growing, is reduced. Although yields per hectare increase, it requires increasingly expensive inputs, intensive, sophisticated and often polluting. Many of these environmental impacts go unnoticed by its diffuse, as with the erosion or alteration of hydrological cycles, which makes it difficult to put in evidence.
However, a correct balance of agricultural productivity should include these environmental costs, and possibly Many activities are defined as profitable today actually be generating economic deficits are transferred to the State or the rest of society. It also is intensifying the concentration of land ownership, the delocalisation of the same, the purchase of national agribusiness by foreign capital and the quarrel between the country's natural resources by the major world powers and their mega . In less than six years on 24 percent of the country's land changed hands, primarily for the benefit of foreigners. From 2000 until the first half of 2006 were sold in Uruguay 3.9 million hectares representing almost 24 percent of the land surface .
As in the case of monoculture eucalyptus, pine, sugar cane, soybeans and others, the problem is not the tree or grass or legume, but the model production technology in which it implements. All of these crops and plantations are common problems that cause-injure the land rights of farmers, soil erosion, alter the water cycle, contaminated with pesticides, remove other ecosystems and reduce biodiversity.
Reclaiming the benefit of the majority
Sustainability and healthy agriculture beyond mere conservation of natural resources and environment to become the expression economic development and social equity.
The transition from a conventional to sustainable agriculture is a slow, complex, that can hardly happen naturally. Means having a set of economic instruments, social and political as well as technology, to guide producers and consumers to a healthy agriculture.
In many countries in Europe farmers are subsidized to understand that agriculture is not just producing a commodity (raw material), but implies a set of values, a culture that must be protected, preserved and recognized. Meanwhile, in our case is an attack against an integrated rural development . undoubtedly promote a diversified production system that preserves the rural landscape and production, would maintain environmental quality, preserve biodiversity, protect soil resources, watersheds sustainably manage and sustain family field.
Our country must implement massive and sustained funding in their systems of formal and informal "bottom" educating for life, human beings become capable of coping with the dominant culture critically and transform it. Shall support measures and legislation to regulate the use, ownership and foreign ownership of land, promoting environmental and land use participatory and sustainable, ensuring support permanent, diversified agriculture, agro-ecological production, family farmers and rural youth, promoting the use of appropriate technologies.
Conventional agriculture has impacts on soil (changes in the microflora, microfauna, erosion), biodiversity (simplification of systems, running of the agricultural and livestock) in the disappearance of native species on the health of consumers and farm workers (residues of pesticides), pollution of waterways, pollution, genetic (GM), pollution air. All these negative impacts are not calculated to set the final price of products (wheat, milk, meat, fruits, vegetables), but should be incorporated into the final price and consider what they are: costs.
This will become clear that conventional agriculture is not only socially and environmentally damaging, but that is not even economically viable.
Opposition to the spread of agro-ecological production is based on concepts not technical or economic, but ideological and political.
To really have a truly sustainable land management requires a joint effort with all stakeholders in a region to ensure a path that leads us to achieve: food sovereignty through local production systems based agroecological , diversity and no monoculture, decentralization and not the concentration, allowing access to water, seeds, land and the use of various renewable energy. say, a new broader sense of our passing through this world, of our coexistence as human beings, to make Earth, humanity can and continue to have future ".
As the Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff : "It is not enough to adapt to new realities, nor is it sufficient to lessen the harmful effects of global warming global, but you have to go to something more profound: we must reestablish the sense of life, we must recreate a new spirituality is
* agronomist, teacher and producer agroecological

Literature consulted

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