WorldcrunchReinaldo Spitaletta is a journalist, published author, and President of the Bello History Center. He works as a columnist for El Espectador, he is director of the magazine Huellas de Ciudad and co-producer of the program Medellín Anverso y Reverso, of Radio Bolivariana.
Launched in the 1960s, USAID was effectively about exercising political control in Latin America and other countries. So why the fuss now that U.S. President Donald Trump has done away with the agency? We should be more concerned about what’s coming next.
Chiquita — the former United Fruit Company — is being ordered to compensate victims of the paramilitaries it financed in Colombia in the late 20th century. Like Monsanto with pesticides, it might begin saving funds to pay more such fines.
We’re renouncing books to gorge ourselves on digital imagery and short texts. If we continue like this, ditching the written word of the past, we may soon become fitting descendants of the cringing, timorous masses of the dark ages.