Gorbachev Blasts US Free Trade Plans in Latin America

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Gorbachev Blasts US Free Trade Plans in Latin America

05/12/2004

The former Soviet leader addressed a speech at the International Gold Symposium in the Peruvian Capital and left a message for Bush: "It is myopic to set national interests so far ahead of world problems".

Former Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev, is far from being retired and still has things to say about world"s current events. Last week, he addressed a speech full of criticism on US-led campaign to break down trade barriers, before the International Gold Symposium, at Peruvian Capital, Lima.

According to Gorbachev, the US fueled Free Trade Agreement of the Americas, is "a one-way street" benefiting rich nations and international corporations. Speaking at a meeting of international gold producers, Gorbachev also said the United States and other Western nations misinterpreted the end of the Cold War as a victory for capitalism. Now the United States must listen to growing criticism that its economic policy is "a one-way street that hasn't benefited 80 percent of the people," he said....>

http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/91/368/12745_Gorbachev.html

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1. thank you Gorbachev - please keep speaking out

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2. Man, I remember when the media went all out trying to discredit this guy..

...for example, in the NYT (IIRC) there was story about how he has a really working-class Russian accent that many, um, upper class Russians frequently ridiculed.

I guess this is why they had to discredit him. He seems to be a pretty insightful critic of neoliberalism.