Blood Diamonds
Blood diamonds refer to the mines in a war zone. Those diamonds were sold to finance an insurgency in Africa. It is said that the African people were the ones in charge to extract the diamonds from the ground, but generally, this people were poor and exploited.
Nowadays, there is no change, the diamond production has increased; Africa is the major producer of those beautiful stones and that continent sells this resource to many contries making millions and millios of dollars. The wealth that the diamond brings has not been distributed very well. We still notice that in many contries of Africa like Liberia, Republic of Congo, Angola, and others, people live in terrrible conditions.
It is time to legitimate and legalize diamond mining industry to stop exploitation in Africa. It is time for the goverments to invest more to improve the quality of life of the people. They have the same rights as everybody.
The four million of people that die every year by wars is terrible. They are still being slaves for the rich people who own the mines.
Edited by Marisol
posted by Guillermo Antonio at
10:17 AM
4 Comments:
I liked it.. it is the reality of the capitalism, just few rich peoples had the most of the richnesses, worked by the poors hands.
wow! when you think of the african people you usually visualize poor people, little starving kids... and knowing that it is a continent that produces and sales diamonts seems so ironic... how terrible is the ambition for money! it is terrible enough to make people (the rich and wealthy ones, I mean) turn their faces away while their fellow humans are dying...
Thanks, for sharing this important iformation with us Guillermo. It is an example that a problem like this could happen in El Salvador if we don´t take care of our people, we could become slaves too.
i didnt know this guille, its sad and outrageous how some people becoming rich while some others becoming poor at the same time, i wonder when all this will stop.
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