Drug corruption has ensnared an increasing number of top military officers and Vladimiro Montesinos, the head of Peru's intelligence agency and a close advisor to President Fujimori. This is hardly new for the World Bank which has long financed corrupt dictators. Exactly what World Bank policies do. Africa's GNP fell by 2.2 percent in the 1980s and by l990, its estimated per capita income was at the same level it had been in 1960. Austerity for Others While worsening poverty in the Third World with its extreme austerity measures, the World Bank has been loath to take its own medicine and has spent the money taken from necessary services in the South on luxuries for itself.
Employees have access to a free health club and complimentary vacation travel.
Also being used is anegre, a very expensive wood from Africa. The Indians were not informed of this. Subsequent independent reports have been suppressed by Wolfensohn. Theodore Downing, an anthropologist who wrote one of these reports, has filed a complaint against the Bank and the IFC, charging them with racism in the Pehuenche's treatment. This is what is meant by 'ethnocide'.