Over the past three decades, sixty of the world’s poorest countries have paid $550 billion in principal and interest on loans of $540 billion, yet they still owe a whopping $523 billion on those same loans. The cost of servicing that debt
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“That, and so many other smaller incidents in my life, made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.”
― Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“government; instead, they would draw their salaries from the private sector. As a result, their dirty work, if exposed, would be chalked up to corporate greed rather than to government policy.”
― The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
― The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
“We, who work every day just to survive, swear on the blood of our ancestors that we will never allow dams across our rivers. We are simple Indians and mestizos, but we would rather die than stand by as our land is flooded. We warn our Colombian brothers: stop working for the construction companies.”
― The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
― The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
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