Ethiopia is now Africa's fastest growing economy

Re:Ethiopia is now Africa's fastest growing economy by omegaworks on Monday May 21, 2018 @03:23PM (#17121027)

>Actually I believe that for a country rich in cash crop potential, some form of communism might actually be not so bad

The international community / western marketplace obliterates any country that dares expropriate / nationalize the lands of the (white colonialist) landholding class.

Just look at how the West has cut off Cuba and Venezuela.

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Re:Ethiopia is now Africa's fastest growing economy by gspetr on Monday May 21, 2018 @05:12PM (#17121869)

Not true in Ethiopia's case, it was never a colony for any meaningful amount of time.

It defies the "african countries are poor only due to the oppressive white colonialism" narrative.

EDIT: As for Venezuela, 1 USD was ~6-7 Venezuelan bolívars in 2013.

Last time I checked it was roughly 1,100,000. A staggering 180 000 times drop in only 5 years.

External political climate remained roughly the same in that time span.

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Re:Ethiopia is now Africa's fastest growing economy by dragonwriter on Monday May 21, 2018 @03:26PM (#17121056)

> Just look at how the West has cut off Cuba

The US cut off Cuba, but even with US retaliatory sanctions much of the rest of the West did not.

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Re:Ethiopia is now Africa's fastest growing economy by andrepd on Monday May 21, 2018 @06:12PM (#17122299)

Add Guatemala 1953 for an even more blatant example. Or the ousting of Allende in Chile. Nothing short of disgusting.

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