It was strange to read about an event as momentous as the fall of Peter Mandelson by peering over someone's shoulder in a lunch queue at the newspaper headlines. I only half understood. A sense of glee and come-uppance common to probably well over 50 per cent of my fellow countrypeople briefly came over me. But this Westminster drama soon fell into the background. I was in the radical Brazilia... Read more
When Davos Meets Porto Alegre: A MemoirWalden Bello Business World, 1 February 2001 Spanish "Hemingway said that the rich are different from you and me. How can anyone expect the people in Davos to understand the crisis that globalization has visited on the lives of people like those of us here in Porto Alegre?" That was going to be my opening line. When I arrived at the universit... Read more
Wearing comedy business suits, complete with fat cigars, dark glasses and outrageous jewellery, 'Franc Suisse', 'Mark Deutsch' and 'Dave Dollar' stride purposefully towards the barbed wire and lines of riot police. Surrounded by TV cameras, they walk straight into the security zone of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Mingling with the chief executives of the world's biggest corp... Read more
