http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010611/fcities.html
James Choate
Oddly enough, this topic came up at home this morning over coffee and pastries on the front porch with someone from a similarly troubled country. Even more oddly, we were in agreement. Want to begin improving the lives of poor people around the world? For starters it seems to me that everywhere the Spanish colonized is royally fucked-up. Family planning will do more to ease the suffering and improve the lot of the poor than a whole grand canyon full of pious, chanting padres. As for the "civil libertarian/anarcho-capitalist challenge" the poor in these areas ( Mexico, SA, Philippines ) barely have resources to feed their children and don't have the energy or the will to think about political philosophy and realization through technology. That is the domain of their masters, the well-off. Mike