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In solidarity with the countries in distress

today's news does not talk about anything other than natural disaster to strike the Japanese. There is no doubt that fell all over the country of the rising sun. First an earthquake of 8.9 on the Richter scale, followed by a tsunami that was more damaging than the earthquake. Now several nuclear reactors have problems. No doubt that Japan takes a while complicated and difficult. The media are

of congratulations. Today the news is even more alarming. The nuclear issue seems to be a threat on which we have no control and can be terrible even for the world. And in another article I talked about this and it is clear that the note is being exaggerated, because again, it sells. And with the profit all values, all professional ethics, is going overboard.

Well, I find that more than one intends to carry food, medicine, blankets, the Japanese Embassy in Mexico. Yes, say and write with great momentum, " support our brothers in misfortune ." In fact, here there is a group of "moles", these characters who get into the ruins looking to rescue the survivors of these disasters, to Japan, to collaborate on this new problem facing the world.

However, subject to accuse me of callous, selfish, what is therefore clear to me that the case of Japan is different in every way to the misery that we suffer in Latin American countries (and many of them poor .) For example, the 8.9-Richter quake did not throw buildings, or at least I have not seen the terrible scenes of collapsed buildings as happened in Mexico City. Why nothing happened in the earthquake? Why not collapsed buildings? Because the Japanese know they live in an area prone to earthquakes and built with precise guidelines for other strict. Here, when the 1985 earthquake, fell sick buildings uninhabitable as a result They say any-of the few rules for building safety. It said there was corruption in many buildings built with inferior materials to cut costs. Anyway, that's another story. The fact is that the country survived the terrible earthquake Japan, but not the tsunami that devastated several coastal towns. To top it off, including tsunamis and earthquakes, Japan, which relies on nuclear plants to provide electricity to the country, had difficulties precisely because of the quake. Some reactors have had to be turned off while others have problems with melting of the core, a matter which I repeat, is not as bad as the media wants to see.

The point is that Japan is a powerhouse in every sense. Is finally a rich country and therefore, no need of these very acts of third world solidarity. To give an example, note the Gross Domestic Product in the World. Where is it located where Japan and Mexico? here are the figures:

World Countries ranked by gross domestic product (GDP) values \u200b\u200b to purchasing power parity (PPP) , the sum of all goods and services produced by a country in a year in relation to purchasing power parity (PPP). This is an economic indicator introduced in the early nineties by the International Monetary Fund to realistically compare living standards across countries, taking into account the per capita gross domestic product in terms of cost of living in each country.

purchasing power parity is one of the most appropriate for comparing living standards than the gross domestic product per capita, as it takes into account changes in prices. This indicator eliminates money illusion linked to changes in exchange rates, so that an appreciation or depreciation of a currency will not change the purchasing power parity of a country, since the inhabitants of this country receive their wages and make purchases in the same currency. Ie allows types exchange between currencies, are such as to allow a coin has the same purchasing power anywhere in the world.

countries by GDP (PPP)

International Dollars in millions

1 United States 14,624,184 2 ; China 10,084,369 3 Japan

4,308,627 4 India 4,001,103 5 Germany
Russia 2,218,764 2,932,036

6 7 Brazil 2,181,677 2,181,069 United Kingdom 8

9 France ;
2,146,283 1,771,140 10 Italy 11 Mexico
1,549,671
12 South Korea 13 Spain 1,364,499 1,457,063

14 Canada ; 1,330,106 15 Indonesia 1,027,437

16 Turkey
956 576 17 Australia 882 344 18
Iran
830 715 19 Taiwan 810 487 20 Poland
717 537


I put the list of the top 20 countries, but you can see the full list here . Note

. In the equivalent of GDP, Japan produces more than twice as Mexico. Japan is the country the third in the world, just below powers United States and China. Brazil is the best Latin American country. Mexico, in the place 11.

But let's talk about poverty in the world: in developing countries 1300 million people live below the poverty line, more than 100 million people live in these conditions in industrialized countries and 120 million in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (see graph 1).

People living on a dollar a day
(percentage)

Figure 1

poverty disparities actually reached alarming; Asia Southern has the largest number of people living on $ 1, ie 515 million people. Followed by East Asia and Pacific Suoriental where 446 million people live in these conditions. 219 million in Africa south of Sahara. And 11 million in the Arab States. In Latin America and the Caribbean 110 million people live on $ 2 daily. In Eastern Europe and Central Asia countries 120 million people live on $ 4 a day.

On the opposite side are the industrialized countries as Europeans, or Japan or Canada, that generally their economies suffer from a very low inflation, the poverty line is set at 14.4 per person per day and the percentage poor is not even the 15 percentage points.

In poor countries, 120 million people lack drinking water, 842 million adults are illiterate, 766 million have no health services, 507 million have a hope life of only 40 years old, 158 million children suffer some degree of malnutrition and 110 million primary school age attend school. (See Figure 2).

Figure 2

But why do I mention all this? Well just to show that being supportive, the sending aid supplies, medicines, clothing, etc., A country like Japan is like a country like Haiti, will help us in a disaster. The working poor out of the crisis for the rich. How can that be? Is to say the least, a bad joke.

In fact, if we are to figures, calculations early bird get the natural disaster in Japan at a cost of about U.S. $ 100.000 million.

In a note of the Universal says

Bank of Japan injected more than 85 billion dollars

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) announced today it would inject $ 7 trillion yen (85 000 848 000 000 61 000 dollars or 557 million euros) to guarantee the financial stability of the country after the serious earthquake on Friday.

Japan's central monetary authority is willing to do whatever is necessary to calm market and ensure liquidity during the greatest crisis since World War II.

This new injection of urgency comes after Sunday BOJ Governor Masaaki Shirakawa announced that the Japanese issuing institution would provide "ample liquidity" in the country's banking system.

The central Bank of Japan and said he has injected 55 billion yen (483 million euros) to thirteen financial institutions in the northeast has been devastated by the earthquake on Friday.

addition, the issuing institution keep Japan on Monday a meeting to consider interest rates, which has been cut to one day instead of the usual two because of the earthquake.

Japanese entity had warned days earlier that he was ready to support financial institutions in the area affected by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that they might be able to respond to the needs of deposit withdrawals "smoothly" .

The Nikkei index of Tokyo Stock Exchange today, down 5% in the first half-hour session, while the Topix index, which gathers all the values \u200b\u200bin the first section, was down nearly seven percent in its first day from the earthquake that devastated parts of the northeast coast.

Put another way, Japan does not need international assistance in terms that are used to hearing. There are no storage facilities to do that to all this, Mexico suddenly spring from nowhere and frankly to me is the most legitimate doubt that any help that is collected comes to those affected.

But there is more information: Mexico ordered the "mole." How many will be sent? "10, 20, 100? Those who are, can not do much. Of course, if they save one life, will be worth the effort, but it is clear, send topos is a tiny help in statistical terms or even paint.

Apart from this, the generous Pope Benedict XVI, donated $ 150.000. Will he or won the Vatican? Viz. That's a joke in real terms, if the figure I said before, U.S. $ 100.000 million is the estimated cost of this tragedy.

Note that it is estimated, unofficially the total death toll at 10,000. That is, the fifth of the number of people who died in Mexico City in the 1985 earthquake, which conservatively estimated at some 50 000 victims. Clearly, preventive approach of the Japanese, to the extent that although 10 000 people dead are many, in terms of natural disaster is probably one of the countries rate lower in fatalities.

In short, who I believe harmful to say these things because I'm sorry. If you want to help then do a storage facility, but for Haiti, a year and Chachita the worst earthquake in its history is the most terrible poverty. If these characters, you always want to feel solidarity with countries in distress, want to act, but then donate to Haiti, because they do not believe that the emergency has passed. Poorest country in Latin America and more fucked up I think there is. That was due to meet the logic that richer countries support the poor people. In the instant case, Japan, is as if the poor want help the rich. repeat: claim solidarity with them by collection centers, sending food, blankets and medicines, is in the more benign, a cruel joke.