Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9505162017.B17760-0100000@cln> Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 20:46:00 -0700 From: VALERIE BRUCE <mailto:vbruce@CLN.ETC.BC.CA> Subject: Re: Africa To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L
Identifying where the aid should be targeted again leads to the charge that the donor country is meddling in the internal affairs of another country. The US is criticized no matter what it does or doesn't do.
On Tue, 16 May 1995, Jose Benjamin Falck wrote:
> I am sorry to butt in, but could someone explain to me how to solve this
> catch-22 situation. If the US intervenes(interferes) bringing down
> president Mobutu in Zaire, our friends from the left would condem this
> act as another example of "imperialistic intervention". If the US does
> not do anything then the chorus becomes "lack of care of the
> US for the impoverished nations of the world."
>
> I do not know much about Africa, being a latinamerican, but the same
> argument was (and still is) made in many instances regarding the relation
> between Latinamerica and the US.
>
> Anyhow, why continue to bother about who did what and when, and lets
> re-direct the discussion to development, specially in this era of budget
> cutting. Maybe one of the areas is to try and identify where the aid
> should be targeted to minimize corruption and maximize results.
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> Jose Benjamin Falck Zepeda
> Graduate Research Assistant
> Auburn University
>