{"id":22558,"date":"2026-04-08T23:07:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=22558"},"modified":"2026-04-08T23:07:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:07:32","slug":"my-1990-speech-in-santiago-chile-bashing-the-world-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/08\/my-1990-speech-in-santiago-chile-bashing-the-world-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"My 1990 Speech in Santiago, Chile Bashing the World Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1990, I gave a speech denouncing foreign aid &amp; the World Bank at a Santiago, Chile conference. Sifting chaos today &amp; saw a packet of photos maybe for the first time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"x1lliihq xjkvuk6 x1iorvi4\">\n<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The organizers offered to pay me extra if I promised not to punish the audience by trying to speak Spanish.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/JPB-1990-Santiago-Chile-golden-filter-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22559\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/JPB-1990-Santiago-Chile-golden-filter-800x545.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/JPB-1990-Santiago-Chile-golden-filter-800x545.jpg 800w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/JPB-1990-Santiago-Chile-golden-filter-1024x697.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/JPB-1990-Santiago-Chile-golden-filter-150x102.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/JPB-1990-Santiago-Chile-golden-filter-768x523.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/JPB-1990-Santiago-Chile-golden-filter-1536x1046.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/JPB-1990-Santiago-Chile-golden-filter-2048x1395.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Here&#8217;s links to some of my articles on the World Bank and foreign aid from the 1980s and early 1990s:<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/Bovard_Wall_Street_Journal_1984_Free_Food_Bankrupts_Foreign_Farmers.htm\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8220;Free Food Bankrupts Foreign Farmers,&#8221; Wall Street Journal, July 2, 1984.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/Bovard_Wall_Street_Journal_1985_Behind_Words_At_World_Bank.htm\">&#8220;Behind the Words at World Bank,&#8221; Wall Street Journal, September 30, 1985.<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/Bovard_New_York_Times_1986_Foreign_Aid_Under_Fire.htm\">&#8220;FOREIGN AID UNDER FIRE; A Costly Cover for a Failing Policy,&#8221; New York Times, November 23, 1986.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/Bovard_Wall_Street_Journal_1987_Bartering_Across_East_Bloc_B.htm\">&#8220;Bartering Across East Bloc Borders,&#8221; Wall Street Journal Europe, January 25, 1987.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8220;The Hungarian Illusion,&#8221; Journal of Economic Growth, Winter 1987. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.org\/Pub\/Freeman-1987sep-00340\">&#8220;The Hungarian Illusion, The Freeman, September 1987.<\/a> (spinoff of Journal of Economic Growth article) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/Bovard_New_York_Times_1987_Silent_Spring_Eastern_Europe.htm\">&#8220;HEADLIGHTS AT HIGH NOON; A SILENT SPRING IN EASTERN EUROPE,&#8221; New York Times, April 26, 1987.<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/Bovard_Wall_Street_Journal_1987_World_Bank_Confidentially_Damns_Itself.htm\">&#8220;World Bank Confidentially Damns Itself,&#8221; Wall Street Journal, September 23, 1987. <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/Bovard_New_York_Times_1987_East_Europe_New_Third_World.htm\">&#8220;ECONOMIC COLLAPSE; Eastern Europe, the New Third World,&#8221; New York Times, December 20, 1987. <\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/Bovard_Wall_Street_Journal_1988_World_Bank_Lip_Service_to_Private_Sector.htm\">&#8220;World Bank Lip Service to Private Sector,&#8221; Wall Street Journal, June 21, 1988.<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/Bovard_1988_How_American_Food_Aid_Keeps_World_Hungry.htm\">&#8220;HOW AMERICAN FOOD AID KEEPS THE THIRD WORLD HUNGRY,&#8221; 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Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","https:\/\/x.com\/jimbovard"],"url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22560,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22558\/revisions\/22560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}