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which met there last week.
on the North/South divide.
More realistically, the CancuT ICEUHE designed allow Teaders of Western - merialsin various selected guests on how capitalism and IeaSm WCIC WOnOCT It was like slave owners telling slaves how vitude was good for them The trappings of the meeting were obscene, lt cost eight million dollars stage. 1П51E0 natories like Thatcher and Reagan were greeted with 21-gun saluic turniture was lown in. 30 was a personal hairdresser Margaret Thatcher Even Times commented Cancun gruous setting for an interthorld s pooms Is poor nations The meeting had been fixed beforchand. Reagan said would Fidel Castro, WaS TEWTECG Various European nations which were expecied to De troublesome, such as Italy. were also not allowed in The Austrian president whose idea the whole thing was •TIEST ist dren af din hatic ist ness. so embarrassed was he about the restricied in vitations. The quite refused to attend, saying that the problems underdeveloped faced were due to 'colonial exploitation and Cancun would not solve ELTET.
roughly translated, means "snakes' The Mexican city was therefore an appropriate venue for the North/South summit The official aim of the gathering was to discuss what could be done about world poverty. It was a follow-up meeting to one held in Ottawa in July which debated the Brandt report WWE the imICCLUT digSpecial Financial that inconthe member, Ted Heath, in The Times: *The (least developed place countries may not be o grece to the West. Bur they economic aTe OICI DI VILdE SLEELCLEl Soviet stability importance to it... is threatened by rightly, radical forces whose the cess is nurtured countries inequality. CC C CEDEVaLC that However, the Brandt Commission argued was in the interests of the towards "global negotiations on would depend 'respect" for the and functions of existing institutions. the Monetary such institution.
This was an important Tions of the world had cal ed for a world bank based impor- on AHO COROLPE OV EE United Nations such an their body the poorer nations would have a majority SUC The IMF, on the other by hand, is dominated, and if taid' to the underdeveloped countries is channelled through such an institution then it it will continue to be of little help to the Southern hall of the hemisphere "Aid" is good business for the West.
"Third World'
West over Ronald dollars in debt servicing the alone Also, the IMF has in that the the past imposed condicountries 183.3 Accordingly. countries open up their markets to manufactured the same time the Wes the same time themselves erect tarrif barriers against ported goods from poor countries.
To have expected the West tackle th/South inequality Cancun would have beer naive The countries have grown rich hecause of their plunder of ар- the South, and because of the hold of their multinationals in many African, financial the North does Asian and American countries The West will not give up its economic dominance of these countries by choice.
that It will have to be PLURECOD taken from them. world poverty
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