Almost the end of a long long long journey

Feelings and facts

The feelings: every day the sadness, the anger and the impotence grow and grow. It seems that no NGOs, no countries, no protesters have the power, the talent, the capability to challenge, to stop, to change the one-way route that the WTO has decided to take. Even, with the arguments, the numbers, the faces, the facts that prove neoliberal policies are not working in the benefit of the people. So it goes.

The facts: the final text of WTO is going to be worse for poor countries and for their citizens that what everybody was expecting. This means, again, nothing for the majority, everything for the minority. There is surprise and disappointment all around this hot and wet Cancun, all around this little and connected planet with the release of the draft of the WTO ministerial meeting.

Nobody knows how this draft was obtained, given the fact that dozens of NGOs were there, in the Convention Center, every day saying that WTO policies were not fair, were forced. Given the fact that around 80 countries -poor countries, of course- have said clearly and loudly 'NO' to several things, like new issues and subsidies to agriculture and have demanded clearly to go ahead on decisions just when they were agreed by EXPLICIT CONSENSUS. This is not happening. So it goes.

More feelings: Every day I think of Mr. Lee Kyung. Nothing is the same but nothing has changed.

Cecilia Navarro is a press officer with the Greenpeace office in Mexico City.