Andres Oppenheimer: Obama’s big opportunity in Latin America

What a dog shit article. Why promote this corporate right wing ideology? Selling this rhetoric is exactly why the world is in such a messed position. Anyone who thinks that the corporations will save the world is greatly misinformed. They are just looking for new lucrative markets. These events are just corporate led coups by crony capitalists. In essence, this ideology continues to seek to privatize and monopolize the world by buying off major media outlets and government legislators alike. It is billionaire families like the Waltons (Walmart) and Murdochs (News Corporation) who push their positions 24 x 7. People are molded by what they repeatedly see and hear. Call it Donald Trump Syndrome. Big business only views us all as 7 billion sheep, who are being fattened and bred for financial slaughter. The markets are completely rigged. Technology is being utilized by few for great advantage over many. This alliance of crooked monopolistic big business buying off government has got to end. We see DOJ going after corrupt FIFA leaders for making the exact same deals, these investigations must take down corrupt political assailants as well. If this TPP trade deal goes through, you can bet your ass you will see the price of pharmaceuticals sky rocket in all the developing nations who become a part of it. And big business will then be given the right to litigate in front of private tribunals. And you can bet your ass they will be made up of corporate loving judges to render decisions on their behalf. It is time to crush the corporate model that is plaguing the citizens of the world. It is not sustainable economically or environmentally to envelop the world with such disastrous short sighted and greed driven policy. And sooner than later it will all come crashing down on the elites as well…

I agree with Mr. Oppenheimer that the US President should visit both Central and South America more frequently. The US perhaps has bullied many of our neighbors, and it is high time to help heal these relationships with peaceful cooperation and economic development… while respecting our differences and cultures.