http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-letterstoamericans/article_2087.jsp Comments for "America's promise, Jim Shultz Oscar R. Olivera " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-letterstoamericans/article_2087.jsp <div class="full_image"> <p> <img src="/content/articles/2087/images/oliv_shultz_still.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="555" /> </p> </div> <p> Dear Jim, </p> <p> Against the world, against the people, against life: that is what the United States means to me. </p> <p> It means a state apparatus run by the gangsters of petroleum companies and banks operating with the commercial and investor arms of the World Trade Organisation, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Its big companies spread their tentacles to all parts of the world, even to the remotest corners of the countryside and city. And it means the omnipresence of an invading army that assassinates and tortures those who oppose the policies of its government. </p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-letterstoamericans/article_2087.jsp" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-letterstoamericans/article_2087.jsp">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-letterstoamericans/article_2087.jsp#comment latin america democracy &amp; power Jim Shultz my america: letters to americans Original Copyright Oscar R. Olivera the americas Mon, 13 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0100 2087 at http://www.opendemocracy.net