El fin de la historia

In these lands we are not experiencing the primitive infancy of capitalism but its vicious senility. Underdevelopment isn't a stage of development, but its consequence. Latin America's underdevelopment arises from external
development, and continues to feed it. A system made impotent by its function
of international servitude, and moribund since birth, has feet of clay. It
pretends to be destiny and would like to be thought eternal. All memory is
subversive, because it is different, and likewise any program for the future. The
zombie is made to eat without salt: salt is dangerous, it could awaken him. The
system has its paradigm in the immutable society of ants. For that reason it
accords ill with the history of humankind, because that is always changing.
And because in the history of humankind every act of destruction meets its
response, sooner or later, in an act of creation.

Eduardo Galeano - Open Veins of Latin America

Entonces, que se necesita en America Latina para romper (o por lo menos intentar de romper) este circulo vicioso?
1. Collective education(the right kind)- solidarity. Not that I approve of collectivism but nonexclusive education and cooperation within the people is much needed in Latin America.
2. Intellectual enlightenment. (Learn to see the bigger picture).
3. Solidarity.
4. Revolution.


Of course, who am I kidding. All this is just quixotic. How are you going to sit down and educate yourself, when you are starving and horny under the blazingly hot tropical weather (this excludes Chile, Argentina etc). Which is also the reason why it is(or they are-places that share the similar history as Latin America) ulcerated with petty money chasing games and ignorance.

Being "street smart" will only get you so far. If you are street smart, you may be able to lie and cheat some petty money out of a wide-eyed man's pocket. But it's the ones that analyze the system and comprehend the world that have the power to completely eradicate you, your family and your posterity.