Newtown, Connecticut

This tragedy reminds me of a news item I saw some time ago on the brazilian television about that little boy, João Hélio, who was dragged along seven km (4.35 mi), tied to the safety belt of his mother's car. In both cases, the media has clearly shown that the cowardice against children can strike, with great brutality, anywhere in the world.

Anyway, when the subject is child, the media must really pay full attention, without stereotyped preconceptions and prejudice based on race, religion, gender or economic situation. I recently watched a video about a Leopard that kills a monkey and discovers that it had a newborn baby, the leopard showed more respect for other race than we have for each other.

Everybody always tells me about the benefits of privatization when the theme is the economy, that story about competition between companies, resulting in a better price, efficiency and delivery of services.

However, the same people forget frequently some contradictions of capitalism as dumping and monopoly, Nobody here is blindly defending the communism against the capitalism, but... What happens when the privatization of the Water System occurs with such monopoly? What happens to the poor people?

Well, I haven't the theoretical knowledge to respond, but the city that I have just mentioned in the last post can respond to us. Votorantim is in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. The defeated candidate for re-election, Carlos Augusto Pivetta, has privatized the Water System and  the result is people with more expensive bills to pay and no water!

Economists like David Martimort and Stéphane Straub show us with some mathematical formulas the discontent in relation to privatizations expressed by citizens all over Latin America (would it be the case of Votorantim?). In practice, the people around the world can see the population discontent through those images.