Chomsky on Puerto Rico

I just wanted to translate for you the first paragraph of the answer given by Noam Chomsky, to the following (also translated):

"Could you talk about the geopolitical situation of Puerto Rico?"

To which he begins to answer:

"Model for Latin America? I do not believe so. I say, it is a completely artificial society. It has a high quality of life, but artificial. It is high compared to the rest of Latin America (but based on) royalties of American taxes, corporations that want low wage labor, drug traffic, public beneficence, aids to keep the people quiet, so that the United States can do with Puerto Rico and its people whatever they want. Want they want (United States) are military bases, soldiers, chemical plants, pharmaceutics, a safe place for American tourists, quiet and obedient people. The result is that, even with the high quality of life, half of the population now live in the United States, where the great majority worked in sweatshops and now suffer from school desertion, health problems, live in the poorest conditions... That seems to me evidence that it did not work."

The information soldier presses on...


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