| carlais on Sat, 02 Oct 1999 13:28:18 -0500 |
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Mihajlo said: >They often lie about what they are reporting about, but more significantly they keep back information that >would allow you to link the info you have into something that makes sence. I think what they do is keeping "back" important information. However I see a more important matter here. Why they never talk about how many people dies every day in Latinamerica because of poverty? They preffer to talk about the bigest building in the world that will be constructed in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Or in other cases they like to inform us about the FMI (International Monetary Found) exigences to give us some money.... Or they talk about Microsoft and the boring Mr. Bil Gates in front of the US Congress.... or they preffer to talk about the Pinochet case that is something important for Chile and not for all of us (Remember that Chile is just one more Southamerican country). We (and consequently U2) have a lot of things to be worry about. We are worry about what is going on in Colombia. Because I personally think that Colombian goverment is an irresponsible goverment since they are giving the chance (to the FARC, ELN guerrillas) to come and make what ever they want in Ecuadorian territory (they are not making a strong control at the frontier). Colombian goverment should be more careful about this, because Ecuadorians are not going just to wait... We do not want the guerrilla in Ecuador.... Do you know that more than a week ago a group of people (fron Belgium, Spain, Canada...) was kidnaped in the frontier of Ecuador and Colombia?. A guy from Spain, that was liberated, said that this is an Ecologist revolucionary group ....I see this as the most dirty argument used by the narcoguerrilla... just to justify a delincuencial fact. I know most people from this list come from Europe and countries like Russia and others, that is why I like sometimes to introduce something about what is going on here in Latinamertica. Do you agree with globalization? If your answer is "yes" then you will be very interested in what happens here in Ecuador (or maybe you and the others should be interested). Something more: CNN and other cable news never talk about Latinamerican Culture. They always prefer talk about an exhibition of Picasso that happens in England, or things like that.... Of course, they like "La Vida Loca" ....and US films ....and Madonna..... What kind of information is this? What kind of answer they want? Maybe they just want to neutralize some minds. Maybe they want to make us want nothing!!? I do not expect to have the CNN talking about Ecuador day and night every day, but I want to see that we are part of the world also. Like any other country or Continent! Why CNN or other companies prefer to wait until war is up to talk or say something about something? The Colombian situation is something to talk about... I really mean! If someone from Colombia is in this list, please say something... More information could be grateful! Finally I would like to point this: Latinamerica is living the most, the biggest crisis. This is an economical, political and cultural crisis. We are not having a war (yet), but we have present something maybe more dangerous. Something with maybe more terrible consequences. Poor people in Ecuador is not very poor yet. In Brazil for example children are living under the streets with the rats and trash.... In Ecuador they still have the chance to use the stairs as little homes.... And what happens with Art? that is something to talk about! Regards, Damian Toro Independent Artists ARTS PARLIAMENT TeleFax.: 593-2-898289 / 897972 Po Box.: 17-07-8983 Quito - Ecuador- Email.: [email protected] ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to unsubscribe, write to <[email protected]> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe [email protected]