Fujimori discovered last week. In Rhode Island's capital, The Providence Journal weighs in with this assessment of President Fujimori. However, he has, to put it gently, strong confidence in himself. Back domestically, Washington D-C is the scene of street protests as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund hold their annual spring meetings. The anti-globalization protestors, who blame the two financial agencies for not doing enough for poor countries and the environment, have been trying to block the meetings and tie up traffic.
History is replete with efforts to stand in the way of economic progress.
It's just that simple. And in Nebraska, the state's biggest daily, The Omaha World Herald, says the criticism of the two international banking agencies is, by and large, misdirected. The World Bank, it is said, provides little assistance to actually aid the world's poor. The reality doesn't precisely match those caricatures. Today's Los Angeles Times is worried about the spread of treatable infectious diseases that have become the leading cause of death worldwide, according to a new study.