24American Republic versus Global Empire
“I’ll be frank,” Paula said one day, while we were sitting in a Barranquilla coffee shop. “The Indians and all the farmers who live along the river you’re damming hate you. Even people in the cities, who aren’t directly affected, sympathize with the guerrillas who’ve been attacking your construction camp. Your government calls these people Communists, terrorists, and narcotics traffickers, but the truth is they’re just people with families who live on lands your company is destroying.”
I had just told her about Manuel Torres. He was an engineer employed by MAIN and one of the men recently attacked by guerrillas at our Alto Sinu dam construction site. Manuel was a Colombian citizen who had a job because ...
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