END OF POVERY by Philippe Diaz

This is a very emotionally engaging and draining documentary that one has to watch to see world poverty is not an accident but an enivitable policy driven byproduct of the globalised system driving a long history of capitalism and exploitation of the worlds resources as well as populations.This is an old continuous process which is leaving levels of efficiency which are resulting today in the deaths of 1000 children every hour,every day through either stravation or denial of basic medicines for easily curable conditions.

Following on Eduardo Galeanos brilliantly written history of the european exploitation of South America the director films what should be the most notorious lanmark to the lows of Human Civilisation , the vast Silver Mountain mone at Potosi , which is the scene of emence european wealth ( the amount of silver produced from this mine complex alone resulted in the silver reserves of europe increasing by a factor of 4 from all the reserves aquired and held in Europe for all the centuries before) and monumental Human Suffering ( the number of People to die at this mine is estimated at no less than 8 Million , more than died in the Holocaust and with a Rwanda thrown in for good measure) , all dying not as the result of war or ethnic cleansing , but to the efficient transfer of resources and wealth to Europe.

Even today , the transfer of wealth from the Poor ( South World) to the Rich ( G20)is to the tune of 200 Billion dollars going from the poor to the rich.GATT ; World Bank ;IMF are a membrane which has allowed this type of negative flow to occur as they encourgae poorer countries to open up thier markets to established corporate companies of the G20 thus suffocating domestic cottage industries than could provide wealth for the local communities.On top of that poor countries are made to privatise large vital resouurces such as the utilities and water , as well as give away natural resources at bottom basement rates , in order to qualify for debt and aid which these countries would not need if they had favourable non-subsidised access to the very Western Nations that preach non-tarrif barriers.

In the video below the director gives an interview outlining some of the barriers and disadvantagious processes which the Richer nations impose on the Poor:



And below is an example from Kenya of the practises that dis empower the People on the ground with a mixture of unfair trading practises and using corrupt methods to pay an unscrupulous elite to build large scale projects that are of little value to the sustenance of the local population.