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• W1569686970 abstract "Media hype about globalization's glories had missed a lot of the real story -that a substantial part of humanity was not prospering. Yet, Latin Americans have been registering these and similar messages for years. As the century ended, a totally new constitution was approved by popular plebiscite in Venezuela, a country largely ignored by U.S. media after a watershed election in December 1998, when the electorate voted into office a previously imprisoned colonel who had staged a military coup against the government in 1992. His 1998 election did get some coverage. The story that did not get covered was how Hugo Chavez was able to rally the support of close to 60 percent of the electorate. Like the Seattle protesters, he had run a campaign that said the people would not be kept prisoner by a small group of bureaucrats in international financial institutions. The masses, he said, deserved more. Since the early '90s, CONAIE, the confederation of indigenous people in Ecuador, has protested the way that Ecuador's political elite have ignored its protests and petitions. Like many of the farmers in Seattle and common people throughout the hemisphere, they sought policies that would give them the resources and access to land to make a living and care for their families. With little U.S press coverage this past year, some of the CONAIE groups in Ecuador also have been vigorously protesting the despoiling and pollution of their environment by some multinational oil companies. News of Latin America is generally not well reported in the U.S. media. This is unfortunate given its growing importance and the increasing ties that bind us. The world in general and U.S. media in particular were greatly shocked, for instance, by the recent Seattle protest against globalization and the World Trade Organization. The media had generally represented free trade and globalization as beneficial to all. Messages from the protestors were quite different: free trade and globalization were not working for many people; policies were being dictated by large multinational corporations and their cost in human suffering and environmental destruction was high; and policies were being made by an isolated few, far removed from the lives and necessities of the masses. Media hype about globalization's glories had missed a lot of the real story -that a substantial part of humanity was not prospering. Yet, Latin Americans have been registering these and similar messages for years. As the century ended, a totally new constitution was approved by popular plebiscite in Venezuela, a country largely ignored by U.S. media after a watershed election in December 1998, when the electorate voted into office a previously imprisoned colonel who had staged a military coup against the government in 1992. His 1998 election did get some coverage. The story that did not get covered was how Hugo Chavez was able to rally the support of close to 60 percent of the electorate. Like the Seattle protesters, he had run a campaign that said the people would not be kept prisoner by a small group of bureaucrats in international financial institutions. The masses, he said, deserved more. They needed policies that would protect them from the vicissitudes of brutal free market and free trade policies that organizations like IMF (the International Monetary Fund) and the World Bank were recommending. His new movement presented an alternative to the corruption and complacency of the old parties and traditional politicians. The people wanted leaders more attuned to their daily lives and real needs and not those restricted to the rarified atmosphere of international financial circles and elitist national politics. The two parties that had dominated Venezuelan politics and most of the old-line politicians received a combined vote of little more than 11 percent, and were discredited. The old parties and old ways were not putting into power politicians who were willing or able to achieve fundamental change. The second leading candidate was an insurgent political leader who had also tried to mold a new national coalition. Such events have not been limited to Venezuela. Throughout the Americas, a growing number of people are seeking new voices. For some years, the Yanomami of Brazil and Venezuela have been decrying the disastrous effects of impinging globalization on their lands and people. Few news reports explained the role of international financial institutions like the World Bank in promoting such development. Since the early '90s, CONAIE, the confederation of indigenous people in Ecuador, has protested the way that Ecuador's political elite have ignored its protests and petitions. Like many of the farmers in Seattle and common people throughout the hemisphere, they sought policies that would give them the resources and access to land to make a living and care for their families. With little U.S press coverage this past year, some of the CONAIE groups in Ecuador also have been vigorously protesting the despoiling and pollution of their environment by some multinational oil companies. Like the unionists in Seattle, workers in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and throughout the hemisphere have organized massive strikes and demonstrations in past years to protest negative effects on wages and working conditions of globalization and of IMF and World Bank policy recommendations. Fellow unionists in Brazil organized their own Workers' Party (P.T.) more than a decade ago and have vigorously resisted the concentration of power and wealth in the hands of the rich and the powerful and the influence of large corporations. They nearly won the 1989 presidential election; their candidates have been elected to congress and to mayorships in major Brazilian cities. In Mexico, members of the Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) and the Zapatistas in Chiapas have been resisting the globalization process because of its pernicious effect on so many people -workers, small farmers, native peoples, members of the middle class, and some small and medium-size businesses. The Zapatistas struggle on in Chiapas, and a PRD candidate is now mayor of Mexico City. A political coalition in Uruguay dedicated to resisting globalization nearly won the presidency at the end of 1999. Media in the U.S. have rarely reported this part of the story. If they had, events in Seattle would have been much less surprising. To better comprehend future events, all of us would be well advised to listen to the messages coming from the rest of the Americas." @default.
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