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Ah yes “misrule”, simple as that don’t ask anymore questions
“Misrule”, “deterioration of the rule of law”, “corruption”, “lawlessness” —poor counties subject to centuries of exploitation, wealth extraction and imperialism....do better
Also note this part, dripping with racist condescension: the UN is “blamed” for introducing Cholera into Haiti. They weren’t “blamed”, the UN admitted it did after years of denial. It’s not an accusation it’s established fact but Haiti still gets the “wacky conspiracy” treatment
“Corruption” discourse is deliberately narrow, patronizing scoldy bullshit trotted out by institutions like the NYTimes to justify why poor and black/brown countries remain poor under global capitalism and nonstop US meddling.
The Super Serious Authoritative Editorial Voice the NYT uses is objectively hilarious—a daily Wizard of Oz where a handful of scared Ivy League newspaper editors dole out advice to poor countries about their internal affairs which, somehow, always involves more meddling by the US
also note the even more condescending use of " spasm of destructive demonstrations" to describe the protests. Countries opposing regime we hate are never said to have "spasm of destructive demonstrations" only outpourings of "pro-democracy/anti-corruption protests".
"spasms". You see it's mindless and impulsive protesting. Not like those Good, Planned protests we approve of.
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