On 4 September in the evening members of our Board
University (Dr. Olman Segura, Rector, Lic. Sandra Leon
Academic Vice Chancellor, Dr. Albino Chacón, student Emil Martinez de la FEUNA and
Dr. Henry Mora, special guest) appeared before the Commission
International Affairs of the Legislative Assembly to affirm and extend the University
position in relation to the FTA.
Accompanied by a good number of students who, from the bars
also expressed its position on posters and legends
Council members explained in detail why the current Treaty
is harmful in many fields of application for the country and why it should not be approved .
I must say that as the presentation progressed, as the Rector of the
A and the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, posed major
theses, and the vehemence of gift Albino Chacón and Mrs. Sandra
position and Emil is claimed, I became stuck in
called and filled in a fight that really goes beyond a simple
be against a trade agreement. In those moments remembered Martí, some things Octavio Paz
("... in the present circumstances the race to development is simply
condemned rush ...") and remembered our frequent and
mass marches in the early seventies. All this made me think that actually
what the fund states and defends the UNA
as well as other institutions and social sectors, there is a diffuse
right to rutting or ideology that looks to the past, but the urgency
moral obligation to fight for a society where "the quality of human existence
is the ultimate measure of development" (Alan Berg). We
, and was exposed in the words of Emil and Albino,
see the development of the country as more than economic development, we can
think a society where art, water resources, environment, education
, health, not be stuck more than they already are in the cycle trade
by the greed of some national and transnational capital
long lost the notion of reality. What is defended on
yesterday, what is said in the first power of the Republic, was a dream
the dream of a society may assume full responsibility for
develop their own paths, to build their own alternative
inclusive development. I caught subtly that this country is, as there is
said, really split, really broken. On the one hand
voracious than the ideology of abstract development (more jobs, more trade, more investment
...) make every effort to get everything, even our
future needs within the transnational market and who,
other hand, assert that the current scheme is unsustainable development, which is unfeasible
how you want to participate in a
globalization as has been said many times is the globalization of capital, where capital
, choked by global competition and social instability and political
seeks new sources of profit at the expense of the very survival of the living
. That globalization is not globalization or the
employment or social security or education or health. Against that schedule
affirmed the A yesterday. This forces us,
undoubtedly to fully incorporate a tough fight, fight,
is announced, will probably lead to streets, unless the Members
intelligently decide not to approve the Treaty. But yesterday,
while transmitting the hearing, a private channel
short passing on the benefits of the Treaty, which incidentally is used
textile workers, who are at the bottom of the image, sewing garments
style of The first scene of Chaplin's Modern Times. For this reason, this month
independence can not be tempted to defend an ideological independence
, who will want to use to tell us our second independence
is possible only with the approval of the Treaty.
I sincerely congratulate the members of our
University Council and the special guest who appeared before the Committee on International
the Legislative Assembly.
feel that were consistent with the sentiment of the majority of this country that despite the mass media in the bottom
know that the Treaty is, as Merino,
more of the same: excessive profit of a few and deepening the
asymmetries. Gerardo Morales
gmorales@una.ac.cr
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