Went to Peru about 5 years ago. Beautiful nation, wonderful people. Absolutely being exsanguinated by imperialists and their comprador pets.
If you want to see the direct effects of imperialism, if you want to know and don’t already live in one, visit a country in the global south. I don’t know much about the ethics of tourism or flooding native economies with euros/USD, granted. I do know that for that meal I got for 10 soles and tipped 20 bucks on, I made my waiter’s life a lot better in the short term.
It’s obvious and self-evident when written. Actually seeing ramshackle, decrepit huts passed off for housing right next to a fancy new KFC with a heavily armed police officer out front is another thing entirely. A superhighway looming over extreme poverty. Grassroots preschools operated by 1 individual taking care of kids while their single mothers work 16 hour shifts and drink themselves to death the rest. Gated, white communities where just outside the water turns to poison (Typhus, in Peru’s case).
There is a revolutionary fire brewing in the heart of Peru, though. Losing Castillo was a defeat, but nowhere near the death-blow.
Not an expert either, but wouldn’t spending dollars earned in America in the global South actually help (albeit in a tiny way)? Your money going into their economies instead of just inevitably getting sucked away into the hands of the handful of USian companies?
Went to Peru about 5 years ago. Beautiful nation, wonderful people. Absolutely being exsanguinated by imperialists and their comprador pets.
If you want to see the direct effects of imperialism, if you want to know and don’t already live in one, visit a country in the global south. I don’t know much about the ethics of tourism or flooding native economies with euros/USD, granted. I do know that for that meal I got for 10 soles and tipped 20 bucks on, I made my waiter’s life a lot better in the short term.
It’s obvious and self-evident when written. Actually seeing ramshackle, decrepit huts passed off for housing right next to a fancy new KFC with a heavily armed police officer out front is another thing entirely. A superhighway looming over extreme poverty. Grassroots preschools operated by 1 individual taking care of kids while their single mothers work 16 hour shifts and drink themselves to death the rest. Gated, white communities where just outside the water turns to poison (Typhus, in Peru’s case).
There is a revolutionary fire brewing in the heart of Peru, though. Losing Castillo was a defeat, but nowhere near the death-blow.
That sounds deafeningly tragic and injust.
Not an expert either, but wouldn’t spending dollars earned in America in the global South actually help (albeit in a tiny way)? Your money going into their economies instead of just inevitably getting sucked away into the hands of the handful of USian companies?