Post by anansi on Feb 16, 2019 5:42:44 GMT -5
This is not new news to most of us here, and this article is from 2017, but I revisit because I mentioned something in another thread that might cause some folks ,especially lurkers to scratched their heads.. But yes it's thing.
[Mega-rich members of Angola’s ruling class are buying up Portuguese wineries, newspapers and banks.]
Anansi's notes: I'd be lying if I said I didn't find some sense of guilty pleasure of the above given the history of Portugal's enslavement and colonization of African lands.
That said they are doing so at the expense of the poor in their own nation.
[ How the roles have reversed: The coloniser, some Portuguese contend, has been colonised. On the Portuguese coast of Cascais, where the nation’s royal court used to summer, a new 14-story condominium building looms by the sea. So many of its apartments have been bought by Angola’s ruling class – sometimes a handful at a time – that the luxury development has a nickname: the “Angolans’ building”.]
[ Along the grandest shopping boulevard in the capital, Lisbon, Angola’s elite buy designer suits and handbags by the armful. And on one corner, above Louis Vuitton, sits the local office of Africa’s richest woman, Isabel dos Santos, a billionaire from Angola who has become one of Portugal’s most powerful figures by purchasing large chunks of the country’s banking, media and energy industries.]
Anansi's note:
Again what about developing communities just outside the glitzy capitol of Luanda.
[ Angola’s ruling class has profited so much during his tenure – and channelled so much of that money into Portugal – that when Angola threatened to cut off ties in recent years in response to reports that Angolan officials were being investigated for corruption in Portugal, Portugal’s foreign minister promptly apologised, setting off an intercontinental debate about the changing power dynamics between the two nations.]
Anansi's notes:
Not championing corruption anywhere, but in a corrupt world , I couldn't help but laugh at the blatant dog walk of Portugal by Angolans.
[ “We had it in our heads that Angola was a poor country that needed to be helped,” said Celso Felipe, a Portuguese journalist and author of the book The Angolan Power in Portugal. “And suddenly they were able to help us and to buy things that we cannot buy,” he said. “It was like a housekeeper buying your house. That is awkward]
Anansi's notes:
The Housekeeper buying your house is called...poetic justice.
[“In Angola, they call Portugal the laundromat,” said Ana Gomes, a Portuguese MEP and a member of Portugal’s governing Socialist Party. “It’s because it is.”]
Anansi:
Bwaaahahaa!!
Awkward it is indeed.
www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/portugal-dominated-angola-for-centuries-now-the-roles-are-reversed-1.3200881?mode=amp#referrer=https://www.google.com
[Mega-rich members of Angola’s ruling class are buying up Portuguese wineries, newspapers and banks.]
Anansi's notes: I'd be lying if I said I didn't find some sense of guilty pleasure of the above given the history of Portugal's enslavement and colonization of African lands.
That said they are doing so at the expense of the poor in their own nation.
[ How the roles have reversed: The coloniser, some Portuguese contend, has been colonised. On the Portuguese coast of Cascais, where the nation’s royal court used to summer, a new 14-story condominium building looms by the sea. So many of its apartments have been bought by Angola’s ruling class – sometimes a handful at a time – that the luxury development has a nickname: the “Angolans’ building”.]
[ Along the grandest shopping boulevard in the capital, Lisbon, Angola’s elite buy designer suits and handbags by the armful. And on one corner, above Louis Vuitton, sits the local office of Africa’s richest woman, Isabel dos Santos, a billionaire from Angola who has become one of Portugal’s most powerful figures by purchasing large chunks of the country’s banking, media and energy industries.]
Anansi's note:
Again what about developing communities just outside the glitzy capitol of Luanda.
[ Angola’s ruling class has profited so much during his tenure – and channelled so much of that money into Portugal – that when Angola threatened to cut off ties in recent years in response to reports that Angolan officials were being investigated for corruption in Portugal, Portugal’s foreign minister promptly apologised, setting off an intercontinental debate about the changing power dynamics between the two nations.]
Anansi's notes:
Not championing corruption anywhere, but in a corrupt world , I couldn't help but laugh at the blatant dog walk of Portugal by Angolans.
[ “We had it in our heads that Angola was a poor country that needed to be helped,” said Celso Felipe, a Portuguese journalist and author of the book The Angolan Power in Portugal. “And suddenly they were able to help us and to buy things that we cannot buy,” he said. “It was like a housekeeper buying your house. That is awkward]
Anansi's notes:
The Housekeeper buying your house is called...poetic justice.
[“In Angola, they call Portugal the laundromat,” said Ana Gomes, a Portuguese MEP and a member of Portugal’s governing Socialist Party. “It’s because it is.”]
Anansi:
Bwaaahahaa!!
Awkward it is indeed.
www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/portugal-dominated-angola-for-centuries-now-the-roles-are-reversed-1.3200881?mode=amp#referrer=https://www.google.com
? They control their own nation YET funnel all of its wealth back to colonial masters ??
