Reflections of Fidel - The G-20 meeting

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TOMORROW the G-20 meeting begins; that is to say, the meeting of the planet’s most developed and rich countries: the United States, Canada, Germany, the United kingdom, France, Italy, and the European Union as a separate entity with a right to participate; these are the fundamental bastions of NATO, plus their allies Japan, South Korea, Australia and Turkey. This last has two characteristics, that of a developing country and member of NATO, as well as Saudi Arabia – a giant reservoir of light oil in the hands of Western transnationals, which pump 9.4 million barrels a day there. All these on one side of the table and, on the other, a group of countries with growing economic and political weight which, due to the numbers of their inhabitants and their natural resources are in fact becoming an expression of the interests of the majority of our suffering and plundered world: the People’s Republic of China, the Russian Federation, India, Indonesia, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico.

Spain, also a NATO ally, is the only "guest country."

It is a meeting between the large producers of machinery and industrial items and the large suppliers of raw materials which, for 500 years after the conquest, were European colonies and, in the last century, supplied them with agricultural products, minerals and energy resources, and the victims of a merciless unequal exchange.

This dark period of history has continued since the descendants of barbaric tribes which populated Europe "discovered" and conquered this hemisphere, armed with swords, crossbows and harquebuses.

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