UNDER PRESSURE FROM WASHINGTON, DC
PUERTO RICO HAS STARTED A PRIVATIZATION PROCESS
Privatization and austerity are hitting a country rooted in systemic inequality
SHOCK DOCTRINE
This process was applied to Puerto Rico, my country, a long time ago.
It was progressing at a mostly unnoticed pace by those Puerto Ricans who weren’t ‘woke’ yet. There was a ‘hint’ of this process when the PROMESA Bill was signed into law.
The Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) is a US federal law that established an oversight board, a process for restructuring debt, and expedited procedures for approving critical infrastructure projects in order to combat the Puerto Rican government-debt crisis.
~Wikipedia~
Hurricane María accelerated the process.
How to stop it?
I don’t know. I don’t think anyone knows!
HortyRex©
~The Shock Doctrine~
The strategy by the world’s economic elites of imposing an extremely neoliberal economic regime on communities they control, using some form of shock: a natural disaster, a coup d’etat, a war, a financial crisis, etc.
Once the community has been crippled by this first shock, the economic “reforms” are imposed suddenly, creating a secondary blow.
Then, as the community begins to recover and fight back, the authorities use torture and police brutality to literally shock the community a third time.
~SOURCE~
http://www.urbandictionary.com
In THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades.
The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America’s “free market” policies have come to dominate the world – through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.
(Very interesting and gripping book. I highly recommend it.)
“As it appears in … full read/full credit”
http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine
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IT STILL HURTS!!
It Is What It Is 