World-renowned fake NGO "Freedom Haus" released its annual fake Freedom Report this week. Once again, Bolivia has been downscaled to "partly free," a designation it has held since earlier this decade. Before that it was just plain old "free."
What changed? In the ensuing years, the country elected its first indigenous president, dramatically increased the economic, political and social mobility of its population and oh yes one other small thing...finally ended the practice of actual RACE BASED SLAVERY that had been in place since the colonial period.
On the other hand, Bolivia has tightened regulations on foreign extractive corporations, et voila: less free! See how this works? Way to go, Freedom! You are totally on the march.
Comments (4)
Evo vs Corpratists
Avatar scared the hell out of the corpratists.
Posted by Bosque
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January 25, 2010 4:43 PM
Posted on January 25, 2010 16:43
Yeah yeah :) My nonlinguist friends make that joke all the time :P
Posted by Utpal
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January 24, 2010 7:23 PM
Posted on January 24, 2010 19:23
Such a cunning linguist, you are...
Posted by QueenBina
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January 24, 2010 5:01 PM
Posted on January 24, 2010 17:01
Eric, that's "cognitive dissonance", not "cognative". (although one could make some joke about "cog-native", oh well :)
Posted by Utpal
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January 24, 2010 4:50 PM
Posted on January 24, 2010 16:50