From New Europe
By David Cronin
"I fear that it will soon be possible to draw another parallel. Following his release, Mandela and his comrades were persuaded to turn South Africa into a dreamland for global corporations. The ANC proved so “generous” in allowing foreign investors take their profits out of the country that in 2001 George Soros told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland: “South Africa is now in the hands of international capital.” By some indicators, the poor got poorer.
Is a similar process underway in Burma?"
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