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"After the US-backed mass murder of approximately one million people in 1965-66, Indonesia became one of the most important allies of the West during the Cold War. A general in the armed forces, Suharto, was rewarded with foreign aid and investment after overseeing the slaughter, and he ruled comfortably (and with record levels of corruption) into the 1990".
— Feb 28, 2024 11:23AM
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"But I had a slightly different ideological apparatus for interpreting an 'anti-corruption crusade' [...] Corruption manifested itself concretely through corporate influence over the state and public life; [...] Regular people were far more affected by the special rights granted to big construction companies and banks [...] than they were by the amounts of money actually kept by politicians themselves"
— Feb 23, 2024 03:04PM
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<< From 1990 to 2017, Russia's share of world GDP was cut in half, while China's share increased sixfold. It was this growth that played such a large role in powering Latin America's (much more modest) achievements in the Lula years. Countries in South America exported raw materials to China, which used them for a boom in infrastructure construction. >>
— Feb 22, 2024 03:46PM
