Mexico Ready to Accept Peace Corps Volunteers

[guajira]

Good deal for Mexico - export farm workers, import computer experts!!

WASHINGTON - Mexico for the first time has shown a willingness to accept Peace Corps volunteers, seeking American computer experts to meet a rise in demand for high tech workers, a State Department official said Monday.
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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/americas/7228051.htm

[E_Zapata]

1. jesus fucking christ.

sorry.......

Well, it had to happen eventually -- the 3rd world countries have been almost driven to feed of the great US of A ......to the point where we will be the 3rd world country, and their middle classes burgeon and prosper. Can't blame them for it; but I sure the hell can blame the american corporatists and the evil politicians who have continually sold us down the river.

Ya know, I have always been a mexican immigrants/illegal alien rights advocate. But there's just something that digs in my craw about a country that has closed borders to individual americans unless they are RICH and now is wanting to take our highly educated people (who were educated on MY tax dollar) and turn it into a 1st world enterprise.

I thought the peace corps was to uplift small groups of people who need assistance with medical care, agriculture, education, etc. Since when is it to be used to raise the friggin country's GDP!?!

[tex46]

2. wait...

Are you saying that the Peace Corps is a tool of the corpratists? I don't agree. I know several Peace Corps alums who have come back to have great careers in Non-Profits and other "anti-corporatist" organizations.

[E_Zapata]

3. You missed my point by a mile......

I am saying exactly what you are saying. But adding that it's a huge misuse of the peace corps for Mexico to use it to improve their friggin national economy!

And how does the peace corp get funded? Do we want to PAY mexico to give them a high tech infrastructure? WTF is up with that? Aren't the BILLIONS and BILLIONS of dollars we have given them from our treasury in loans that ALWAYS get written off when they can't pay or their inflation skyrockets kind of beyond the call of duty to start with?

Anyways, I must not have been clear. the peace corp is a humanitarian organization NOT a corporate enhancement program.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. But under Republican administrations, the Peace Corps

has been used not only to bring health care to villagers in Africa and India but also to teach capitalist business practices to the elites in the former Soviet bloc.

The Peace Corps has an honorable history, but not all its programs are of equal value.