Heroes for a Better World

Patricio Aylwin Azócar
(1918-)

31st President of Chile
1998 Fulbright Prize for International Understanding

birthdate: November 26
birthplace:
Viña del Mar, Chile

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...in our continent, in the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean, around two hundred million people, almost half the population, live on incomes of less than 60 dollars a month, and of these, over 90 million survive under the poverty line on less than one dollar a day. These circumstances, which from a moral standpoint are scandalous, represent a serious obstacle to development, an attack against social peace, are incompatible with democracy and pose a dangerous threat to the political stability of nations.

...even in the United States, the richest nation in the world, poverty affects 16.5% of its population. All these are symptoms, in my opinion worrying symptoms, of a serious process of dehumanization in which men and women are increasingly enslaved by consumer goods, more self-centered, less supportive of others and less capable of loving their fellow men.

....the globalization that characterizes today’s economics goes beyond or eludes the sovereignty of individual states, and thus the power of their rulers. It is not they, but rather financial groups in control of vast amounts of capital, who decide upon their vertiginous passage through nations, without taking into account the serious crises they might generate.

...ordinary men and women may often feel unmotivated to exert their citizenship, either because they cannot tell the difference between the different alternatives, or because they have lost faith in the political classes, or because they feel that the really important issues are not in their power to decide.

 


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