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Originally Posted by lorax
1. Voter turnout in Ecuador is about 98% - the state fines people for not voting. It is also enshrined in our constitution to right to protest, and the right to boot the president whenever a large enough group is unhappy with his actions. To bring this around to our discussion, if the plantation workers were in the square in Quito, in front of the Presidential Palace, things would likely get done - it's like Speaker's Corner but the government actually listens to the people.
3. You would object to wholesale murder in your own country, but you don't object to wholesale murder of other people in other countries, even by order of your own government?
4. More bananas for everybody!
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Lorax,
Let me clarify....
1) If things are presented to the workers as you have described them, why aren't they in the Speaker's corner every day (considering they are on strike and it is the largest contributor to the GNP) and why is the president still in power? This is quite confusing to me as an outsider. Is it a given that whoever is elected or in power will be in bed with foriegn industrialists?
3) I object to wholesale murder wherever it occurs. Naturally, it doesn't occur often here, although I am expecting more of it this summer.