"Whether you are one or the other, everyone steals, and all are violent for the poor there is no difference between the two "Laurent Nkunda, days before his capture in the shelter of North Kivu (Congo) This phrase as true as the IS PRONE TO MISS SEVERAL AFRICAN AND ASIAN FROM THIS SIDE PLANET (LATIN AMERICA), MAYBE MEDIOCRITY prduct OF OWN CAPITAL AND / OR NOT LOOKING BEYOND OUR OWN SHADOW.
. THE VULTURE WANT TO SHARE SOME OF THE COUNTRY OF LAURENT NKUDA SO WHO SAID THIS QUOTE .. AS PAINFUL BUT SO TRUE ... ... ... Congo In the case of euro centrist vision usually refers only positively to Congo to talk about "a rich country, but always for the belongings you have and not what it is. The cynical language of the colonial powers (as in a thousand ways almost all of them are) that stimulates the war to keep power cheaply removing the minerals needed for technology, has usurped the real meaning of the word "value" and We sold it in the form of mineral, micro chip, GSM mobile and Play Sation 2. It seems that the life of Congo expressed in its rich culture, history and diversity is revealed superfluous, as if for the unfortunate Congolese West are nothing more than a means for our sick concept of "quality of life."
United Nations, Wikipedia and CNN say that in the Congo and sixty million people live, but in reality this figure is not entirely correct. Would be more accurate to say that in the Congo and sixty million people survive. It is no exaggeration if we pay attention to figures recently provided by the United Nations, Amnesty International and Doctors Without Borders: More than two million souls live outside their homes and almost all rely on humanitarian aid for food. The HIV infection rate is six percent. Acquire terror levels such that many babies who survive this dreadful infant mortality rate (deaths per hundred thousand) are the product of the violence, as in the Congo, rape is an instrument of war fully embraced by all armed groups. Thousands of those children who survive are forced to take the gun as have the strength to just hold it. Also malaria (the major cause of death in the Congo, as elsewhere in Africa) is rife, and if this were not enough, some of the most devastating diseases -Even unusual in most parts of Africa such as cholera and Ebola-erupt regularly in eastern Congo.
In the decade of 1870 the Belgians arrived and, thanks to works such as Conrad (The Heart of Darkness) we learned of this terrible colonial era, which made them suffer unspeakable. But when a century later reached the sovereignty and it seemed that at last the Congolese would be free, their lack of experience and democratic heritage was met with a few personal interest and greed of some international powers. Perhaps one could say that all current new era of instability began with the arrest and murder of independence leader Patrice Lumumba.
In 1960, Patrice Lumumba, a member of the Mouvement National Congolais won the country's first free elections, but on completion of the independence process some of the most mineral-rich provinces, such as Katanga and South Kasai seceded from the newborn parliamentary alliance.
The Belgian government, which wanted to continue exploiting the country's vast mineral reserves, helped Katanga and South Kasai suddenly became independent. Supported them financially and established a leadership tailored to your interests. Faced with such a recolonization of the country, the young nationalist government of Lumumba requested the assistance of the United States obtaining the silence for an answer. That, in those years of intense geopolitical polarity led to the approximation of the Congo to the Soviet orbit.
Later, a series of episodes later plunged the country into an internal crisis that precipitated the sudden dismissal of Lumumba, thanks to a plan that the CIA plotted together with the Belgian intelligence service. The move ended with the execution of Lumumba, who was seen as a communist by Washington (when in reality he was a Pan Africanist discourse with a moderately progressive)
... .. But what is curious is all this happened in the Congo .. that and so far seems like it with our Latin American countries .. or not?
