Reply #7: Not as reliable as the US private gulag industry. [View All]

[Mika]

The US uber capitalist model is reliable..

Researcher Gladys Hernandez reported on the social disparities that continue to exist in Latin America. The situation in the region has worsened with 213 million poor (40.6 percent of the population); 41 million children under the age of 12 currently living in poverty; 53 million people who suffer from hunger; and 42 million illiterate.

But, nothing could be as reliable as the growth market in privatizing fascism - BushCrimeInc style..

But inequalities also find fertile ground in the United States, whose GDP is infamously buoyed up by profits generated from the production and sale of weapons (no less than 25 percent of the GDP) and the construction of private prisons.

While ten years ago there were barely five private prisons in the US, today there are more than 100, managed by 18 large corporations, spread across 27 states of the Union, with a total of more than 100,000 prisoners. In 1994, the private prison business generated profits that did not surpass 394 million dollars, in 2004 profits had soared to 2.7 billion and they are estimated to have reached the 3 billion mark in 2005