June 20, 2006

Totalitarian Tendency Watch: Arepita de manteca...

...pa'mamá que da la...

A press release sent out by the Ministry of Information and Communications this week reaches an absurd new low in terms of politicizing the eminently apolitical. A note on the government's commitment to encourage breastfeeding carried the headline: "The First Act of Food Sovereignty."

Apparently, breastfeeding is only considered praiseworthy if it can somehow be turned into another lego-piece in the government's indoctrination strategy.